Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the … Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from January 2007 to December 2010. We find that drone strikes do not have any … significant impact on terrorist violence in Afghanistan but that drone strikes do have a significant impact on Taliban …

Our research examines the effect of combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan on casualties. We use restricted data … types. Our estimates indicate that overall U.S. military personnel who deployed in an individual year to Iraq or Afghanistan …

affect the welfare characteristics and choices of individuals and households in conflict areas. -- conflict ; violence ; war …, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual …

Measuring the economic impact of a war is a daunting task. Common indicators like casualties, infrastructure damages …. This paper proposes a new method to estimate the welfare impact of conflicts and remedy common data constraints in conflict …-affected environments. The method first estimates how agents regard spatial welfare differentials by voting with their feet, using pre-conflict …

conflict exposure (ACE) among Turkish conscripts. Our empirical framework identifies the causal impact and isolates the … mediating pathways for the average male randomly picked from the population. Contrary to the arguments that war fosters … evidence that ACE fosters parochialism, measured by increased opposition to peaceful means of conflict resolution, animosity …

the start of the war with those who responded shortly after the conflict began and applying difference-in-differences (DiD …) models over time, we find a significant decline in the outcome after the war started. These findings provide new evidence on … how armed conflicts influence social trust and well-being among young people in a country not directly involved in the war. …