variance decomposition analyses to track the response of protests to shocks in the level of corruption. Using annual data from … 1962 to 2019, we find a positive and significant response of protests to a positive shock in the news-based corruption … reflection index. We also show that the main channels where higher corruption may lead to higher internal protests are through …

standalone effects. In this study, we focus on the case of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent Iran-Iraq war from … 1980 to 1988. We use the synthetic control method to study the effect of revolution and war on changes in income inequality … levels. Had there been no revolution and war in Iran, how would income inequality have developed? Utilizing the synthetic …

We estimate the opportunity cost for Iran due to the Islamic revolution and eight years' war with Iraq (1978 … loss is equivalent to 40% of income per capita, which an Iranian could reach at the absence of revolution and war. …

Iranians for the period 1978–1988 during the revolution and war. I use a synthetic control approach to construct a synthetic … (‘OPEC’) countries. The synthetic Iran matches the average level of key pre-revolution life expectancy correlates and the … evolution of the factual Iranian life expectancy during the post-revolution period through the end of the war. I find a sizable …

variance decomposition analyses to track the response of protests to shocks in the level of corruption. Using annual data from … 1962 to 2019, we find a positive and significant response of protests to a positive shock in the news-based corruption … reflection index. We also show that the main channels where higher corruption may lead to higher internal protests are through …

standalone effects. In this study, we focus on the case of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent Iran-Iraq war from … 1980 to 1988. We use the synthetic control method to study the effect of revolution and war on changes in income inequality … levels. Had there been no revolution and war in Iran, how would income inequality have developed? Utilizing the synthetic …

We estimate the opportunity cost for Iran due to the Islamic revolution and eight years' war with Iraq (1978 … loss is equivalent to 40% of income per capita, which an Iranian could reach at the absence of revolution and war. …

Iranians for the period 1978–1988 during the revolution and war. I use a synthetic control approach to construct a synthetic … (‘OPEC’) countries. The synthetic Iran matches the average level of key pre-revolution life expectancy correlates and the … evolution of the factual Iranian life expectancy during the post-revolution period through the end of the war. I find a sizable …