Collateral Damage
The Legacy of the Secret War in Laos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9716919 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juan Felipe Riaño (0000-0003-4909-4127, Georgetown University), Felipe Valencia Caicedo (University of British Columbia, Canada, CEPR, UK, IZA & Kiel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 134 |
| Issue | 661 |
| Pages | 2101-2140 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ej/ueae004 |
| OpenAlex | W3125593929 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 67 |
We investigate the long-term impact of conflict on economic development, focusing on the US ‘Secret War’ in Laos (1964–73). Our study employs multiple empirical strategies and data on bombing campaigns, satellite imagery, and development indicators to demonstrate that regions heavily bombed during this period experienced lower economic development almost fifty years after the conflict officially ended. A one-standard-deviation increase in bombing intensity is associated with a 7.1% decrease in GDP per capita. We demonstrate the persistent effects of bombing campaigns on human capital accumulation, structural transformation and migration patterns, stressing the role of unexploded ordnance contamination as the primary mechanism of transmission of these effects
Collateral · Collateral damage · Criminology · Political science · Sociology · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
The General Model, Part I
Valid t -ratio Inference for IV
Bones, Bombs, and Break Points
On the economic consequences of civil war
The Three Horsemen of Riches
The historical roots of economic development
State Capacity and Military Conflict
Threshold Externalities in Economic Development
Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space
Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention
Estimation of spatial autoregressive panel data models with fixed effects
WorldClim 2
Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects
GMM estimation with cross sectional dependence
Testing for Weak Instruments in Linear IV Regression
The Economic Consequences of the War
The Economics of Poverty Traps and Persistent Poverty
A History of Cambodia
Civil War
Poorly Measured Confounders are More Useful on the Left than on the Right
Bombs, Brains, and Science
Ruggedness
Ethnic Diversity and Growth
Conflict, Climate, and Cells
Forced Migration and Human Capital
Rural–urban migration, economic transition, and status of female industrial workers in Lao PDR
The billion pound drop
The strategic bombing of German cities during World War II and its impact on city growth
Civil Conflict and Forced Migration
The human capital consequences of civil war
The long-run impact of bombing Vietnam
Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict
Missing Men
Inequality as a Determinant of Malnutrition and Unemployment
Shadow War
Conflict, Educational Attainment, and Structural Transformation
Bases, Bullets, and Ballots
Destruction from Above
How War Changes Land
A History of the Vietnamese
The Economic Costs of Conflict
Do Poverty Traps Exist? Assessing the Evidence
Can War Foster Cooperation
Urban-Rural Gaps in the Developing World
Unpacking the Black Box of Causality
Explaining Causal Findings Without Bias
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |