Replication Data for: Large-scale agricultural investments, employment opportunities and communal conflict

The global demand for resources can have negative effects on local communities in the places of production. We investigate how large-scale agricultural investments (LSAIs) influence the risk of communal conflict. We assess a mechanism that links LSAIs to conflict through interethnic competition over access to plantation employment. Our analyses focus on the case of Liberia. We measure the propensity of communal conflict with joy-of-destruction games (JDG). We first investigate associations between access to employment and JDG outcomes---comparing villages that are located below/above a distance threshold at which travel costs to plantations equal daily wages of plantation workers. We find higher levels of destruction in communities with better access to LSAI employment. We then analyze effects of randomized inter-ethnic constellations in JDG. Contrary to our expectations, we find no evidence of more destructive behavior in minority vs. majority constellations. Exploratory descriptive and additional qualitative analyses tentatively suggest a link between LSAIs, labor migration, and communal conflict.