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

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

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 …

We explore recent policy changes which aim to equalize access to elite elementary schools in Beijing, to identify the … elementary schools through lotteries, the policy of school federation led by elite schools consolidates ordinary primary schools … through alliance with elite schools. Moreover, the designated primary school for a residential complex can change from an …

We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the …

.10% and 19.93%). Moreover, our analysis suggests heterogeneous treatment effects related to elite capture within Farmer …