CASPIANA is a website I created to facilitate research on the fascinating regions spreading east and west of the Caspian Sea. It is hosted by Harvard University’s Davis Center Program on Central Asia. In Caspiana you can find links to selected media sources, government portals, legislation databases, statistics, and academic resources to study eight countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Anselm Hager, Krzysztof Krakowski, and Max Schaub find that exposure to ethnic violence negatively affects prosocial behavior within and across ethnic groups in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. In expanding upon their, work I demonstrate that on the contrary, ethnic violence can have a heterogenous treatment effect.