This study examines the causal joint effect of a new political regime and war against Iraq on life expectancy of … Iranians for the period 1978–1988 during the revolution and war. I use a synthetic control approach to construct a synthetic … evolution of the factual Iranian life expectancy during the post-revolution period through the end of the war. I find a sizable …

that individuals must rely on cues to form opinions about war. But in an environment filled will potential cues, which ones … two distinct cues within the context of a newspaper story about the Iraq War to test four theoretical models of the … effort to update their attitudes toward the war. These results also provide support for the cost/benefit perspective on the …

Thomas Conroy, Jarice Hanson, eds. Constructing America's War Culture: Iraq, Media, and Images at Home. Lanham …