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Chi-Yang Chu
;
Daniel J. Henderson
;
Le Wang

the robust relationship between us food aid and civil conflict (replication data)

Humanitarian aid has long been considered an important means to reduce hunger and suffering in developing countries. A recent finding by Nunn and Qian (US food aid and civil conflict, American Economic Review 2014; 104: 1630-1666) that such aid from the US increases the incidence and duration of civil conflict in recipient countries, however, questions the effectiveness of this policy and poses a serious policy concern for the US government. We revisit this issue by conducting a successful replication study of the results in their paper. In order to further scrutinize their claims that a heterogeneous effect of food aid on conflict is not present, we employ a semiparametric endogenous estimation procedure. We show that their parametric models cannot be rejected and argue that their findings are robust.

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Chu, Chi-Yang; Henderson, Daniel J.; Wang, Le (2016): The Robust Relationship Between US Food Aid and Civil Conflict (replication data). Version: 1. Journal of Applied Econometrics. Dataset. https://jda-test.zbw.eu/dataset/the-robust-relationship-between-us-food-aid-and-civil-conflict?__no_cache__=True