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Combat, Casualties, and Compensation : Evidence from Iraq and Afghanistan

Armey, Laura E. - 2018

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 …

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Violent Conflict and Breastfeeding : The Case of Iraq

Diwakar, Vidya - 2017

unique pairing of the Iraq Body Count database, in conjunction with the 2006 and 2011 Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys for … Iraq, we find that increases in conflict-related casualties are associated with a decline in breastfeeding incidence, with …

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The Effect of Village-Based Schools : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Afghanistan

Burde, Dana - 2012

sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan. The program significantly increases enrollment …

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Food Security and Wheat Prices in Afghanistan : A Distribution-Sensitive Analysis of Household-Level Impacts

D'Souza, Anna - 2012

-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR …

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Are Drone Strikes Effective in Afghanistan and Pakistan? On the Dynamics of Violence between the United States and the Taliban

Jaeger, David A. - 2012

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 …

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Wars and Child Health : Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict

Akresh, Richard - 2011

This is the first paper using household survey data from two countries involved in an international war (Eritrea and Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to exploit exogenous variation in the conflict's...

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The Impact of Armed Conflict on Economic Performance : Evidence from Rwanda

Serneels, Pieter M. - 2012

Important gaps remain in the understanding of the economic consequences of civil war. Focusing on the conflict in Rwanda in the early 90s, and using micro data to carry out econometric analysis, this paper finds that households and localities that experienced more intense conflict are lagging...

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Could Education Promote the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process?

El-Attar, Mayssun - 2009

This paper explores Palestinians' attitudes towards a peace process and their determinants, with a particular focus on the role of education. Understanding the factors that shape attitudes towards peace is important in order to be successful in negotiations or in implementing a peace agreement....

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Consensual and Conflictual Democratization

Cervellati, Matteo - 2007

We study the process of endogenous democratization from inefficient oligarchic systems in an economy where heterogeneous individuals can get involved in predation activities. The features of democracies are shown to be crucially related to the conditions under which democratization initially...

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The Labor Market Costs of Conflict : Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings

Sauer, Robert M. - 2006

In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings. We quantify the conflict by the frequency of temporary closures of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the number of overseas foreign workers in the Israeli labor market. Data on...

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