Collateral Damage: The Legacy of the Secret War in Laos

How Peace Saves Lives: Evidence from Colombia

“…Second, it contributes to the literature that points out how successful state-building efforts need to involve different sets of institutions and guarantee enough checks and balances to avoid unintended negative consequences (see Fergusson, 2019 for a recent review). Relatedly, a growing literature has identified how US-led areal bombing campaigns during the 1970s generated long-term negative consequences only to the extent that bombed states lacked the capacity to invest in the recovery of the affected areas (Miguel and Roland, 2011;Dell and Querubin, 2018;Riaño and Valencia Caicedo, 2020;Lin, 2020). Finally, it expands the literature on the peace dividend, and in particular on that of the intended and unintended consequences of peace agreements, including Colombia's (Prem et al, 2020(Prem et al, , 2022b(Prem et al, , 2021aGuerra-Cújar et al, 2021;de Roux and Martinez, 2021;Bernal et al, 2022).…”

How Peace Saves Lives: Evidence from Colombia

“…Second, it contributes to the literature that points out how successful state building efforts need to involve different sets of institutions and guarantee enough checks and balances to avoid unintended negative consequences (see Fergusson, 2019 for a recent review). Relatedly, a growing literature has identified how US-led areal bombing campaigns during the 1970s generated long-term negative consequences only to the extent that bombed states lacked the capacity to invest in the recovery of the affected areas (Miguel and Roland, 2011;Dell and Querubin, 2018;Riaño and Valencia Caicedo, 2020;Lin, 2020). Finally, it expands the literature on the peace dividend, and in particular on that of the intended and unintended consequences of peace agreements, including Colombia's (Prem et al, 2020(Prem et al, , 2021bGuerra-Cújar et al, 2021;de Roux and Martinez, 2021).…”

Do Explosions Shape Voting Behavior?

“…Finally, we contribute to the literature about the long-term political consequences (or lack thereof) of large U.S. led aerial bombing campaigns and the consequent abundance of unexploded ordnance in affected countries (see Lin, 2020 for the case of Cambodia, Riaño and Valencia Caicedo, 2020 for the case of Laos and Miguel andRoland, 2011 andDell andQuerubin, 2018 for the case of Vietnam). A closely related literature also suggests that the efforts to strip affected lands from these type of underground active explosives also has political and socio-economic consequences (Prem et al, 2022;Chiovelli et al, 2019).…”