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Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq

Berman, Eli; Shapiro, Jacob N.; Felter, Joseph - 2021

We develop and test an economic theory of insurgency motivated by the informal literature and by recent military doctrine. We model a three-way contest between violent rebels, a government seeking to minimize violence by mixing service provision and coercion, and civilians deciding whether to...

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The Long-Term Effects of Military Conscription on Mortality : Estimates from the Vietnam-Era Draft Lottery

Conley, Dalton - 2009

Research on the effects of Vietnam military service suggests that Vietnam veterans experienced significantly higher … mortality than both non-Vietnam veterans and the civilian population at large. These results, however, may be biased by non …. The present study generates unbiased estimates of the causal impact of Vietnam era draft eligibility on male mortality …

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The Long Run Impact of Bombing Vietnam

Miguel, Edward; Roland, Gérard - 2021

We investigate the impact of U.S. bombing on later economic development in Vietnam. The Vietnam War featured the most …

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The War at Home : Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Post-War Household Stability

Conley, Dalton - 2011

Prior researchers have deployed the Vietnam-era draft lottery as an instrument to estimate causal effects of military …: household and family life. In the present study we use the same IV approach to model the causal impact of Vietnam- era military …

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The Empiricists' Insurgency

Berman, Eli - 2015

Research on insurgency has been invigorated this past decade by better data, improved methods, and the urgency of understanding active engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan. This empiricists' insurgency reinforces a classic literature on the essential role of civilians while challenging older...

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A Dynamic Theory of Resource Wars

Acemoglu, Daron - 2011

We develop a dynamic theory of resource wars and study the conditions under which such wars can be prevented. The interaction between the scarcity of resources and the incentives for war in the presence of limited commitment is at the center of our theory. We show that a key parameter...

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Stopping Suicide Attacks : Optimal Strategies and Unintended Consequences

McBride, Michael T. - 2010

Governments fighting terrorists have many tactical options, yet these options often yield unintended and counterproductive consequences. This paper models a terrorist organization, a religious group from which the terrorists recruit suicide bombers, and the society in which the terrorists are...

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After Johnny Came Marching Home : The Political Economy of Veterans' Benefits in the Nineteenth Century

Kang, Sungwon - 2010

This paper explores new estimates of the number of veterans and the value of veterans' benefits -- both cash benefits and land grants -- from the Revolution to 1900. Benefits, it turns out, varied substantially from war to war. The veterans of the War of 1812, in particular, received a smaller...

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Collateral Damage : Trade Disruption and the Economic Impact of War

Glick, Reuven - 2010

Conventional wisdom in economic history suggests that conflict between countries can be enormously disruptive of economic activity, especially international trade. We study the effects of war on bilateral trade with available data extending back to 1870. Using the gravity model, we estimate the...

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What Do Financial Markets Think of War in Iraq?

Leigh, Andrew - 2010

We analyze financial market data in order to produce an ex-ante assessment of the economic consequences of war with Iraq. The novel feature of our analysis derives from the existence of a market for Saddam Securities,' a new future traded on an online betting exchange that pays only if Saddam...

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