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 …

Poor program can lift households out of poverty in a fragile context: Afghanistan. In 80 villages in Balkh province, 1 … impacts, the intervention has an estimated internal rate of return of 26 percent, excluding non-monetized improvements in …

As of this writing, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are in their eighth and tenth years, having accrued nearly a …

segments of the population through a range of mechanisms. We study the effects of civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan … longer run 'propaganda' and 'revenge' effects. In Afghanistan we find strong evidence that local exposure to civilian … harm to civilians may indeed help counterinsurgent forces in Afghanistan to reduce insurgent recruitment …

induced randomized variation in the method of council elections in 250 villages in Afghanistan. In particular, we compare at …

governments. Using the random assignment of an innovative election fraud-reducing intervention in Afghanistan, we find that … Afghanistan is a democracy; (2) whether the police should resolve disputes; (3) whether members of parliament provide services …

sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan. The program significantly increases enrollment … reduces the disparity in test scores. The intervention increases formal school enrollment by 42 percentage points among all …