the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) to estimate the relationship between terrorist attacks and female labor supply. We …

We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment …, and radicalization via an instrumental variable strategy based on wind. Drone strikes are suggested to encourage terrorism …

This paper studies employment patterns and trends in South Asia to shed light on determinants of extremely low female … employment rates in the region. After a comprehensive literature review, we use employment data from about one hundred censuses … and surveys from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka to compare employment trends …

This paper investigates the effect of economic sanctions on employment. We exploit the imposition of a series of … import exposure on manufacturing employment at the industry level. Our estimates indicate that the sanctions led to an … overall decline in the manufacturing employment growth rate by 16.4 percentage points. However, we uncover significant …

to refugees who come now in terms of finding employment depends, among other things, on the labor market position of the …

region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment …

, showing a much more nuanced picture of female labor force participation than one might expect. Recent trends in employment and … factors drawing women into the labor force at attractive employment and pay conditions. This affects, by 2004, only a small …

This paper examines how Nepal's 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women's decisions to engage in employment. Using … women's likelihood of employment increased as a consequence of the conflict. … war on women's employment decisions. Results indicate that as a result of the Maoist-led insurgency, women's employment …

. Specialization based on comparative advantage leads to gains from trade. If political conflict leads to a diminution of trade, then … at least a portion of the costs of conflict can be measured by a nation's lost gains from trade. The greater two nations …' gain from trade the more costly is bilateral (dyadic) conflict. This notion forms the basis of Baron de Montesquieu …