Benjamin Crost
Biographic Data
| ID | 5736287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Crost |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Crost |
| SIGNATURE | CROST B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9483-9680 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Labor intensity, market structure, and the effect of economic activities on civil conflict
Marketing fortified rice
Fortification of staple foods is among the most cost-effective public health interventions. In settings where mandatory fortification is not feasible, providing fortified foods through public safety net programs and building private demand can be implemented in parallel to maximize coverage. However, little is known about what marketing messages are most effective at increasing the demand for fortified foods. Further, as governments scale up fort…
Can community service grants foster social and economic integration for youth? A randomized trial in Kazakhstan
Extractive resource policy and civil conflict
Wet Laws, Drinking Establishments and Violent Crime
Drawing on county‐level data from Kansas for the period 1977–2011, we examine whether plausibly exogenous increases in the number of establishments licensed to sell alcohol by the drink are related to violent crime. During this period, 86 out of 105 counties in Kansas voted to legalise the sale of alcohol to the general public for on‐premises consumption. Using legalisation as an instrument, we show that a 10% increase in drinking establishments …
Recessions and health revisited
Conditional cash transfers, civil conflict and insurgent influence
Aid Under Fire
We estimate the causal effect of a large development program on conflict in the Philippines through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary poverty threshold used to assign eligibility for the program. We find that barely eligible municipalities experienced a large increase in conflict casualties compared to barely ineligible ones. This increase is mostly due to insurgent-initiated incidents in the early stages of program pre…
Political Market Characteristics and the Provision of Educational Infrastructure in North India
Conditional cash transfers, civil conflict and insurgent influence
Political Market Characteristics and the Provision of Educational Infrastructure in North India
Extractive resource policy and civil conflict
Wet Laws, Drinking Establishments and Violent Crime
Drawing on county‐level data from Kansas for the period 1977–2011, we examine whether plausibly exogenous increases in the number of establishments licensed to sell alcohol by the drink are related to violent crime. During this period, 86 out of 105 counties in Kansas voted to legalise the sale of alcohol to the general public for on‐premises consumption. Using legalisation as an instrument, we show that a 10% increase in drinking establishments …
Political Market Characteristics and the Provision of Educational Infrastructure in North India
Aid Under Fire
We estimate the causal effect of a large development program on conflict in the Philippines through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary poverty threshold used to assign eligibility for the program. We find that barely eligible municipalities experienced a large increase in conflict casualties compared to barely ineligible ones. This increase is mostly due to insurgent-initiated incidents in the early stages of program pre…
Conditional cash transfers, civil conflict and insurgent influence
Recessions and health revisited
Wet Laws, Drinking Establishments and Violent Crime
Drawing on county‐level data from Kansas for the period 1977–2011, we examine whether plausibly exogenous increases in the number of establishments licensed to sell alcohol by the drink are related to violent crime. During this period, 86 out of 105 counties in Kansas voted to legalise the sale of alcohol to the general public for on‐premises consumption. Using legalisation as an instrument, we show that a 10% increase in drinking establishments …
Extractive resource policy and civil conflict
Can community service grants foster social and economic integration for youth? A randomized trial in Kazakhstan
Marketing fortified rice
Fortification of staple foods is among the most cost-effective public health interventions. In settings where mandatory fortification is not feasible, providing fortified foods through public safety net programs and building private demand can be implemented in parallel to maximize coverage. However, little is known about what marketing messages are most effective at increasing the demand for fortified foods. Further, as governments scale up fort…
Labor intensity, market structure, and the effect of economic activities on civil conflict
Economics (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Civil Conflict (4 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (4 works) · Business (3 works) · International Development and Aid (3 works)