I consider a model in which an autocrat can be removed from power either through a military coup or a revolution by the …

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 …

We study the effect of the 2011 Egyptian revolution and its aftermath on migration intentions of the Egyptian youth. We … measure revolution intensity using the spacial variation in the number of deaths during the revolution from the Statistical … Database of the Egyptian Revolution Wikithawra and combine it with data on migration intentions from the Harmonized Survey of …

Iranians for the period 1978–1988 during the revolution and war. I use a synthetic control approach to construct a synthetic … (‘OPEC’) countries. The synthetic Iran matches the average level of key pre-revolution life expectancy correlates and the … evolution of the factual Iranian life expectancy during the post-revolution period through the end of the war. I find a sizable …

This paper tests the hypothesis that the extension of the voting franchise was caused by the threat of revolution, as … revolution in a given country by revolutionary events happening in neighboring countries. We investigate the relationship between … this new measure of the threat of revolution and measures of suffrage reform in two samples of European countries covering …

successful revolution at a stochastic cost. I incorporate this mechanism in a three-country, two-good trade model where countries … revolution is expected to generate trade frictions between the mother country and the rebel colony. Thus, the attractiveness of … revolution and the sustainability of empire come to depend on the capacity of the rebel colony to access international markets …