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Michael Spagat - Wikipedia

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Michael Spagat
Born	c. 1960 (age 63–64) United States

Academic background
Education	Northwestern University (BA) Harvard University (PhD)
Thesis	Supply Disruptions in Centrally Planned Economies^[1]^[2]
Academic work
Discipline	Economist
Institutions	Royal Holloway, University of London Brown University University of Illinois

Website	mikespagat.wordpress.com

Michael Spagat (born c. 1960) is an American–British economist and researcher of war and armed conflict.^[3]^[4] He is currently a professor of economics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is also the chair of the board at Every Casualty Counts,^[5] and is on the advisory panel of Action on Armed Violence.^[3]^[6]

Biography

At Northwestern University, Spagat had obtained a BA in mathematical methods in the social sciences and economics in 1982. He was awarded a PhD in economics at Harvard University in 1988. He had held two positions as assistant professor of economics, one at University of Illinois from August 1987 to July 1990, and another at Brown University from July 1990 to August 1997, before joining Royal Holloway, University of London in September 1997. He is currently a professor of economics at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Research

His current research addresses armed conflict, universal patterns in modern war, fabrication in survey research, the Dirty War Index civilian casualties in the Iraq War and problems in the measurement of war deaths in the Iraq War and the Israel–Hamas war.^[3]^[4]^[7]^[8]

Selected works

Bohorquez, Juan Camilo; Gourley, Sean; Dixon, Alexander R.; Spagat, Michael; Johnson, Neil F. (2009-12-17). "Common ecology quantifies human insurgency" (PDF). Nature. 462 (7275): 911–914. Bibcode:2009Natur.462..911B. doi:10.1038/nature08631. PMID 20016600.
Overland, Jody; Simons, Kenneth L.; Spagat, Michael (2005). "Political instability and growth in dictatorships" (PDF). Public Choice. 125 (3). Kluwer Academic Publishers: 445–470. doi:10.1007/s11127-005-3060-0.
Restrepo, Jorge A.; Spagat, Michael; Vargas, Juan F. "The dynamics of the Colombian civil conflict: A new data set" (PDF). Centre for Economic Policy Research. SSRN 480247.
Spagat, Michael; Mack, Andrew; Cooper, Tara; Kreutz, Joakim (2009). "Estimating war deaths: An arena of contestation". Journal of Conflict Resolution. 53 (6): 934–950. doi:10.1177/0022002709346253.
Jewell, Nicholas P.; Spagat, Michael; Jewell, Britta L. (2018). "Accounting for civilian casualties: From the past to the future" (PDF). Social Science History. 42 (3): 379–410. doi:10.1017/ssh.2018.9.
Spagat, Michael; van Weezel, Stijn. "The decline of war since 1950: New evidence" (PDF). Lewis Fry Richardson: His Intellectual Legacy and Influence in the Social Sciences. Springer International Publishing: 129.
Hsiao-Rei Hicks, Madelyn; Dardagan, Hamit; Guerrero Serdán, Gabriela; Bagnall, Peter M.; Sloboda, John A.; Spagat, Michael (2009). "The weapons that kill civilians—deaths of children and noncombatants in Iraq, 2003–2008". New England Journal of Medicine. 360 (16): 1585–1588. doi:10.1056/NEJMp0807240. PMID 19369663.
Hsiao-Rei Hicks, Madelyn; Dardagan, Hamit; Guerrero Serdán, Gabriela; Bagnall, Peter M.; Sloboda, John A.; Spagat, Michael (2011). "Violent deaths of Iraqi civilians, 2003–2008: analysis by perpetrator, weapon, time, and location". PLOS Medicine. 8 (2). Public Library of Science: e1000415. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000415. PMC 3039690. PMID 21358813.

References

^ "Doctoral Dissertations on Russia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe Accepted by Universities in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, 1987–1988". Slavic Review. 48 (1): 156–176. 1989. doi:10.1017/S0037677900125781. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 2498728.
^ Spagat, Michael. "Supply disruptions in centrally planned economies". Harvard Library Catalog.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Professor Michael Spagat". AOAV. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
^ ^a ^b "Michael Spagat". Royal Holloway Research Portal. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
^ "About us". Every Casualty Counts. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
^ "Staff". AOAV. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
^ "The Death Toll in the Gaza War". Royal Holloway Research Portal. Retrieved 2024-11-13.
^ Spagat, Miken (2024-07-10). "A critical analysis of The Lancet's letter "Counting the Dead in Gaza: Difficult but Essential"". AOAV. Retrieved 2024-11-13.

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