estimate the marginal cost of reducing U.S. fatalities in World War II, holding constant mission effectiveness, usage intensity … (troop-intensive), and airborne (also troop-intensive) military units, as well as mid-war reorganizations of each type, to …

War can have long-lasting effects on individual mental health through war trauma. In this paper, we explore the impact … causality issues are addressed using objective measures of war intensity recorded at the municipality level.We find that … individuals experiencing war trauma have worse mental health six years after the end of the conflict. In particular, instrumental …

This paper estimates the causal long-term consequences of an exposure to war in utero and during childhood on the risk …

used extensively during the U.S.-Vietnam war in the 1960-70s. Using a nationally representative health survey and an … Vietnamese civilians located in a commune one-standard-deviation more exposed to herbicide during the war were 19.75 percent more …

While descriptive evidence suggests that deployment in the Global War on Terrorism is associated with adverse mental …

from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level …, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus while war has many negative legacies for individuals and … reanalyze the emerging body of evidence, and weigh alternative explanations. There is some indication that war violence …

differences. This paper attempts to identify the drivers of the Syrian civil war of 2011 by investigating the role of ethnic …

. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending … is associated with national innovation towards war logistics such as food processing, but less towards war technology … such as guns. This pattern reflects differences in the historical markets for war supplies. European patent data of 1990 …