Citation

Caruso R, Khadka P, Petrarca I, Ricciuti R. Def. Peace Econ. 2016; 28(2): 250-270.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/10242694.2015.1122282

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper investigates the effect of the deployment of United Nations Blue Helmets on economic activity in South Sudan with a special focus on agricultural production. Since UN troops are predicted to improve security, in particular, we expect a positive relationship between deployment of UN blue Helmets and cereal production. We test our hypothesis using an original data-set including all the 78 South Sudanese counties over the period 2009-2011. We control for the non-random assignment of UN troops through an Instrumental Variables approach. Our empirical results show that a 10% increase in the size of the troop allows the production of additional 600 tonnes.

Language: en