نبذة مختصرة : Civil conflicts are frequent in Nigeria, and have contributed in stalling economic progress in the country. The first empirical essay of this thesis investigates the effects of one of the most recent episodes; the Boko haram conflict. It examines the effects of exposure to the conflict on household food security and whether households cope with this major risk to household welfare by leveraging their resilience capacity including wage labor supply, access to livelihood networks and collective infrastructures. The primary finding of this study is that households cope better with the shocks if they are endowed with strong resilience capacity ex-ante, and as such exposes the usefulness of resilience as a concept of development for the Nigerian context. The second and third empirical essays focus on the the theme of relative deprivation which features among the top explanations for the frequent conflicts. Both essays approach deprivation from the perspective of access to education. The second essay considers issues relating to access to university education, and the general implication for accumulated human capital. It finds that the nature of the distribution of the universities affects not only the distribution of human capital at the tertiary level, but also at the basic primary and secondary education levels. The third empirical essay tackles the issue of persistence of inherited inequalities, particularly if colonial inequalities denoted by district level of human capital contributes to intergenerational transmission of human capital. The essay principally finds thatdistrict inequalities are quite persistent mainly because of the legacies of the christian missionaries in the areas of provision of social services such as schools and general social infrastructures. ; Les conflits civils sont fréquents au Nigeria et ont contribué à freiner le progrès économique du pays.Le premier essai empirique de cette thèse étudie les effets de l'un des épisodes les plus récents, le conflit de Boko Haram. l'un des épisodes les ...
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