Determinants of Social Conflicts in Mining Sites

This paper assesses the determinants of social conflicts in Peruvian mining sites. We use information at the district level regarding social conflicts and mining firms for the period between 2008 and 2017 We find that socio-demographic as well as economic factors - not previously used in the literature – relevant to districts and firms, significantly affect the probability of socio-environmental conflicts. Different from previous work, an increase in international prices affects each mine does not have significant effects in the occurrence probability of conflicts in the host districts.