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panel growth regression analysis and a structural VAR model. We find that, on average, the incidence of terrorism may have … that associated with either external wars or internal conflict. As well, terrorism is associated with a redirection of …We perform an empirical investigation of the macroeconomic consequences of international terrorism and interactions …
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analyze the impact of one of the world's largest anti-poverty programs, India's NREGS, on the intensity of Maoist conflict. We …
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data as measured by orbital satellites and conflict data spatially mapped to latitude and longitude coordinates. Using a … fighting declines significantly once a conflict begins; neighboring countries also experience large negative effects. The …
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This paper estimates the effect of exposure to terrorist violence on education. Since terrorists may choose targets endogenously, we construct a set of novel instruments. To that end, we leverage exogenous variation from a local terrorist group's revenues and its affiliation with al-Qaeda....
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Despite record economic growth in the decade that followed the fall of the Taliban regime, poverty remained stubbornly … high in Afghanistan, and especially so in regions that suffered less from conflict. This paper aims to explain this puzzle … by combining a model of conflict intensity at the province level in 2007−14 with a model of consumption at the household …
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