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Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq

Berman, Eli - 2008

We develop and test an economic theory of insurgency motivated by the informal literature and by recent military doctrine. We model a three-way contest between violent rebels, a government seeking to minimize violence by mixing service provision and coercion, and civilians deciding whether to...

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The War at Home : Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Post-War Household Stability

Conley, Dalton - 2011

Prior researchers have deployed the Vietnam-era draft lottery as an instrument to estimate causal effects of military …: household and family life. In the present study we use the same IV approach to model the causal impact of Vietnam- era military …

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The Long-Term Effects of Military Conscription on Mortality : Estimates from the Vietnam-era Draft Lottery

Conley, Dalton - 2009

Research on the effects of Vietnam military service suggests that Vietnam veterans experienced significantly higher … mortality than both non-Vietnam veterans and the civilian population at large. These results, however, may be biased by non …. The present study generates unbiased estimates of the causal impact of Vietnam era draft eligibility on male mortality …

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The Long Run Impact of Bombing Vietnam

Miguel, Edward - 2006

We investigate the impact of U.S. bombing on later economic development in Vietnam. The Vietnam War featured the most …

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Stopping Suicide Attacks : Optimal Strategies and Unintended Consequences

McBride, Michael - 2010

Governments fighting terrorists have many tactical options, yet these options often yield unintended and counterproductive consequences. This paper models a terrorist organization, a religious group from which the terrorists recruit suicide bombers, and the society in which the terrorists are...

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The Empiricists' Insurgency

Berman, Eli - 2015

Research on insurgency has been invigorated this past decade by better data, improved methods, and the urgency of understanding active engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan. This empiricists' insurgency reinforces a classic literature on the essential role of civilians while challenging older...

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A Dynamic Theory of Resource Wars

Acemoglu, Daron - 2011

We develop a dynamic theory of resource wars and study the conditions under which such wars can be prevented. The interaction between the scarcity of resources and the incentives for war in the presence of limited commitment is at the center of our theory. We show that a key parameter...

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The Nexus of Elites and War Mobilization

Jia, Ruixue; Bai, Ying; Yang, Jiaojiao - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

How do elites mobilize commoners to participate in a war? How does war mobilization affect elite power after the war? We argue that these two questions are interconnected, as elites mobilize war often because war benefits them. We demonstrate these relationships using the setting of the...

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Did the War on Terror Ignite an Opioid Epidemic?

Cesur, Resul - 2019

Grim national statistics about the U.S. opioid crisis are increasingly well known to the American public. Far less well known is that U.S. war veterans are at ground zero of the epidemic, facing an overdose rate twice that of civilians. Post-9/11 deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq have exposed...

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Capital Destruction and Economic Growth : The Effects of Sherman's March, 1850-1920

Feigenbaum, James J. - 2018

Using General William Sherman's 1864-65 military march through Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina during the American Civil War, this paper studies the effect of capital destruction on medium and long-run local economic activity, and the role of financial markets in the recovery...

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