Arbeitspapier

Guns and Butter? Fighting Violence with the Promise of Development

There is growing awareness that development-oriented government policies may be an important counterinsurgency strategy, but existing papers are usually unable to disentangle various mechanisms. Using a regression-discontinuity design, we analyze the impact of one of the world's largest anti-poverty programs, India's NREGS, on the intensity of Maoist conflict. We find short-run increases of insurgency-related violence, police-initiated attacks, and insurgent attacks on civilians. We discuss how these results relate to established theories in the literature. The main mechanism consistent with the empirical patterns is that NREGS induces civilians to share more information with the state, improving police effectiveness.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9160

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Crisis Management
National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
National Security and War
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Thema
public works program
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
NREGA
NREGS
India
regression discontinuity design
terrorism
Naxalites
Maoists
conflict
insurgency
civil war

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Khanna, Gaurav
Zimmermann, Laura V
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2015

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Khanna, Gaurav
  • Zimmermann, Laura V
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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