through pairwise comparison of state building patterns between South Korea and Taiwan, on the one hand, and Iraq and … Afghanistan, on the other. These countries received significant amounts of aid in different periods; their situations differed on …

System. Comparing to those in other duties around the world, deployment to Iraq/Afghanistan increases the odds of developing … on the service, compared to a tour under 120 days. For Army and Navy, a deployment to Iraq/Afghanistan further …

Our research examines the effect of combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan on casualties. We use restricted data … types.Our estimates indicate that overall U.S. military personnel who deployed in an individual year to Iraq or Afghanistan …

records for 110,000 Army personnel serving during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, we find that African Americans were …

Since 2001 international attention has focused on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and specifically on the … democracies. Despite their differences, Iraq and Afghanistan are often considered together in analyses of state-building, and … multiple observers have explored the lessons of one for the other. Yet Iraq and Afghanistan are not the first cases of US …

-in-difference-in-differences approach, we analyze empirically whether the presence of US-based NGOs in Afghanistan and Iraq improved their chances of … external funding. We find that NGOs being active in Afghanistan tended to benefit from easier access to official sources of …