Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2020 - This version: July 2020
Does U.S. military aid make the United States safer? To answer this question, we collect data on 173 countries between 1968 and 2014. Exploiting quasi-random variation in the global patterns of U.S. military aid, our paper is the first to provide causal estimates of the effect of U.S. military...