Precision-Guided or Blunt? The Effects of US Economic Sanctions on Human Rights

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We use endogenous treatment-regression models to estimate the causal average treatment effect of US economic sanctions on four types of human rights. In contrast to previous studies, we find no support for adverse effects of sanctions on economic rights, political and civil rights, and basic human rights. With respect to women's rights, our findings even indicate a positive relationship. Emancipatory rights are, on average, strengthened when a country faces sanctions by the US. Our findings are robust when applying various changes to the empirical specification. Most importantly, this study provides strong evidence that the endogeneity of treatment assignment must be modelled when the consequences of sanctions are studied empirically.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ILE Working Paper Series ; No. 2

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; International Conflicts; Negotiations; Sanctions ; National Security; Economic Nationalism ; International Agreements and Observance; International Organizations ; Basic Areas of Law: General (Constitutional Law) ; Property Law ; Capitalist Systems: Property Rights ; Capitalist Systems: Political Economy ; Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Political Economy; Property Rights
• Subject: Democratization ; Discrimination ; Economic Sanctions ; Endogenous Treatment Model ; Human Rights ; Interventionism ; Protectionism ; Repression ; United States

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Gutmann, Jerg ; Neuenkirch, Matthias ; Neumeier, Florian
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Hamburg, Institute of Law and Economics (ILE)
• (where): Hamburg
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/156098
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET