Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War
Assassinations are a persistent feature of the political landscape. Using a new dataset of assassination attempts on all world leaders from 1875 to 2004, we exploit inherent randomness in the success or failure of assassination attempts to identify the effects of assassination. We find that, on aver...
Main Authors: | Jones, Benjamin F., Olken, Benjamin A. |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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American Economic Association
2011
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61324 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1918-4631 |
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