Simple OLS estimates of the effect of school-imposed penalties for drug use on a student's consumption of marijuana are … marijuana use to sanctions and thereby demonstrate the efficacy of school-imposed penalties as a deterrent to adolescent drug … use. This is the first evidence of such efficacy and, given what is known about the consequences of drug use, suggests …

linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large …. Therefore while conflict may not be the driving factor in overall levels of food insecurity in Afghanistan, it may limit the …

-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR …

sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan. The program significantly increases enrollment …

timber have been linked to civil war. On the other hand, these resources may also provide one of the few reliable sources of …

of cooperation during war, we find that individual cooperativeness robustly increases with the length of time a person …

-sectional household surveys collected before and after the genocide. The identification strategy uses pre-war data to control for an age … were school-aged when exposed to the war. The findings show a strong negative impact of the genocide on schooling, with …

This study exploits district-level variation in the timing and intensity of civil war violence to investigate whether … armed conflict in Peru, a country that experienced the actions of a tenacious, brutally effective war machine, the Shining … Path, between 1980 and 1995. This study finds that the most sensitive period to early-life exposure to civil war violence …