Berman, Eli; Felter, Joseph; Shapiro, Jacob N.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
violence. Empirically, however, development programs and economic activity sometimes yield increased violence. Using new panel … data on development spending in Iraq, we show that violence reducing effects of aid are greater when (a) projects are small … "hearts and minds" model, which predicts that violence reduction will result when projects are secure, valued by community …