globalization and import dependency as a short-term reaction to economic turbulences and geopolitical upheaval at the onset of war …

This study examines the causal joint effect of a new political regime and war against Iraq on life expectancy of … Iranians for the period 1978–1988 during the revolution and war. I use a synthetic control approach to construct a synthetic … evolution of the factual Iranian life expectancy during the post-revolution period through the end of the war. I find a sizable …

the social infrastructure of a potential enemy. War using conventional weapons may be preceded by or combined with a war … likelihood of a war reducing the deterrence. …

standalone effects. In this study, we focus on the case of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent Iran-Iraq war from … 1980 to 1988. We use the synthetic control method to study the effect of revolution and war on changes in income inequality … levels. Had there been no revolution and war in Iran, how would income inequality have developed? Utilizing the synthetic …

conflict is about rival goods, more similar groups are more likely to engage in war with each other. We formalize these ideas …