Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the … Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from January 2007 to December 2010. We find that drone strikes do not have any … significant impact on terrorist violence in Afghanistan but that drone strikes do have a significant impact on Taliban …

We study the impact of conflict on both the extensive and the intensive margin of child labor in Afghanistan. We … identify and test two main mechanisms. First, if conflict reduces a household income through a decline in parent … if the marginal benefits of working under conflict is greater than its marginal cost, which may depend on the relative …

high in Afghanistan, and especially so in regions that suffered less from conflict. This paper aims to explain this puzzle …Despite record economic growth in the decade that followed the fall of the Taliban regime, poverty remained stubbornly … by combining a model of conflict intensity at the province level in 2007−14 with a model of consumption at the household …

This paper addresses the relationship between the level of violence and the opium market in Afghanistan’s provinces. We … response to shocks; and the Mean Group Estimator to summarize our results across the provinces. Results suggest a conflict …

crucial to alternative crops. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western hostile casualties, our proxy for conflict … show that conflict has a strong effect before but no effect after planting, indicating causality. …

We examine the relationship between household income and happiness in Afghanistan and the moderating roles of fear of … provinces in Afghanistan. Employing fixed effects ordered logit regressions, our results reveal a positive association between … significantly impact their predicated level of happiness. This result can be attributed to two main issues. First, in conflict …

The presence of conflict affects people's economic incentives. Some sectors of activity flourish, while others suffer …. For understanding structural problems in developing countries and designing appropriate post-conflict reconstruction … policies, it is essential to understand in what ways conflict affects the structure of the economy. We develop a simple model …

The presence of conflict affects peoples economic incentives. Some sectors of activity flourish, while others suffer …. For understanding structural problems in developing countries and designing appropriate post-conflict reconstruction … policies, it is essential to understand in what ways conflict affects the structure of the economy. We develop a simple model …