@article{ref1,
title="The economic impact of peacekeeping. Evidence from South Sudan",
journal="Defence and peace economics",
year="2016",
author="Caruso, Raul and Khadka, Prabin and Petrarca, Ilaria and Ricciuti, Roberto",
volume="28",
number="2",
pages="250-270",
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1024-2694",
doi="10.1080/10242694.2015.1122282",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2015.1122282"
}