focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes … in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …

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 …

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

In this paper, we investigate the long-run effects of World War II on socio-economic status (SES) and health of older … Retirement in Europe (SHARE) in 2009. This survey provides detailed data on events in childhood including those during the war as … well as several measures of exposure to war shocks such as experience of dispossession, persecution, combat in local areas …

variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do … different types of conflict affect country growth rates? It finds that wars slow the economy. Estimates indicate that civil war …