The Fiscal Cost of Conflict : Evidence from Afghanistan 2005-2016 /

I use a monthly panel of provincially-collected central government revenues and conflict fatalities to estimate government revenues lost due to conflict in Afghanistan since 2005. I identify causal effects by instrumenting for conflict using pre-sample ethno-linguistic share. Headline estimates are...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barrett, Philip
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/204
Online Access:Full text available on IMF