{"id":46,"date":"2005-04-05T18:53:51","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T22:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/04\/05\/warfare-and-development-the-long-r"},"modified":"2005-04-05T18:53:51","modified_gmt":"2005-04-05T22:53:51","slug":"warfare-and-development-the-long-run-impact-of-bombing-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/04\/05\/warfare-and-development-the-long-run-impact-of-bombing-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Warfare and development: The long-run impact of bombing Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a63'><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><b><i><span style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\">Massachusetts Avenue<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\"> Development Seminar<\/span> (MADS)<br \/><\/i><\/b><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><\/span><\/b><\/font><\/font><br \/>\n<b><i><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><\/span><\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">With Edward Miguel, Dept. of Economics, University of California at Berkeley<br \/>\nAnd Discussant Frederick Brown, Southeast Asia Studies Program, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies<\/p>\n<p>1776 Massachusetts Ave. NW , Third Floor, Washington , D.C.<br \/>\nThursday, April 7, 2005, 12:00 noon&#x2013;1:30 p.m. (Lunch will be served)<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">ABSTRACT: We investigate the impact of U.S. bombing on later economic development in Vietnam. The Vietnam War featured the <\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">most intense bombing campaign in military history. We use a unique U.S. military dataset containing bombing intensity at the <\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">district level (N=585). We compare the heavily bombed districts to other districts, controlling for baseline demographic <\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">characteristics and district geographic factors. U.S. bombing does not have a statistically significant impact on long-run <\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">population density, poverty rates, infrastructure, or literacy in the 1990s. This finding suggests that recovery from war <\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">damage can be rapid, under certain conditions, although further work is needed to establish the generality of the finding in <\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">other settings.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">May we suggest Troy?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/font><br \/>\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts Avenue Development Seminar (MADS) With Edward Miguel, Dept. of Economics, University of California at Berkeley And Discussant Frederick Brown, Southeast Asia Studies Program, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies 1776 Massachusetts Ave. NW , Third Floor, Washington , D.C. 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