used to draft servicemen. -- crime ; violence ; military ; two-sample IV ; Vietnam War …

A multi-stage model on the course of war is presented: Individual battles are modeled as private value all-pay auctions … with asymmetric combatants of two opposing teams. These auctions are placed within a multi-stage framework with a tug-of-war … models of militarized conflicts, yields new theoretical justification for existing empirical findings with respect to war …

While descriptive evidence suggests that deployment in the Global War on Terrorism is associated with adverse mental …

perception of economic well-being, possibly influenced by such tactics, predicts war and peace onset. Using unique data … bracketing the onset of the Nepalese Civil War, we find that higher levels of perceived income adequacy are associated with later … war onset during periods of rebel recruitment, and with earlier peace onset in general. These results hold regardless of …

sister. We find that polities led by queens participated in war more than polities led by kings. Moreover, aggressive … pursue more aggressive war policies …

households in response to the 1996 — 2006 Maoist insurgency in Nepal. After the war onset, agricultural households that were …

, policy variables). If the bulk of fluctuations during war episodes can be explained by the rise in government spending in the …

ascribed first to the fact that in the wake of the war with Georgia in August 2008 the tandem of the Russian leaders (the RF …