TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berman,Eli
AU  - Shapiro,Jacob N.
AU  - Felter,Joseph H.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - December 2008; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - We develop and test an economic theory of insurgency motivated by the informal literature and by recent military doctrine. We model a three-way contest between violent rebels, a government seeking to minimize violence by mixing service provision and coercion, and civilians deciding whether to share information about insurgents. We test the model using panel data from Iraq on violence against Coalition and Iraqi forces, reconstruction spending, and community characteristics (sectarian status, socio-economic grievances, and natural resource endowments). Our results support the theory's predictions: improved service provision reduces insurgent violence, particularly for smaller projects and since the "surge" began in 2007
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w14606
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w14606
ER  -