In this paper, we empirically analyze the effect of UN and US economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap … employ a matching approach to account for the endogeneity of sanctions. Our results indicate that an average episode of UN … sanctions reduces life expectancy by about 1.2-1.4 years. The corresponding decrease of 0.4-0.5 years under an average episode …

into how the U.S. enforces its sanctions that should be of significant utility to future theory-building efforts …How economic sanctions are enforced undoubtedly has a major impact on whether they are successful. To shed light on the … ways in which governments enforce their sanctions, we conduct an empirically-driven case study of how the lead agency for …

In this paper, we empirically assess how economic sanctions imposed by the UN and the US affect the target states' GDP … growth. Our sample includes 68 countries and covers the period 1976 - 2012. We find that sanctions imposed by the UN have a … statistically and economically significant influence on economic growth, but that the effect of US sanctions is less clear. On …