Despite record economic growth for more than a decade, poverty has remained stubbornly high in Afghanistan, especially …

In a behavioral model of civil conflict, foreign military intervention alters the resources available to warring groups … effect of the intervention for conflict incidence. The paper confirms empirically the finding in the literature that ethnic … significantly associated with civil conflict in the presence of foreign military intervention of non-humanitarian and non …

. This is reinforced by an emerging norm of humanitarian intervention. Democracies may have a motivation to intervene in non …, democratic intervention appears to be successfully promoting democratization, but the target states tend to end up among the …

in Afghanistan, this paper explores whether the inclusion of villages in the country's largest development program alters …

Poor program can lift households out of poverty in a fragile context: Afghanistan. In 80 villages in Balkh province, 1 … impacts, the intervention has an estimated internal rate of return of 26 percent, excluding non-monetized improvements in …

of the National Solidarity Program, a community-driven development program in Afghanistan that created democratically …

candidates. Results from a unique field experiment in Afghanistan are consistent with these predictions. Specifically …

randomized field experiment in 250 villages across Afghanistan, this paper compares outcomes of secret-ballot referenda with …