The Cost of Fear : The Welfare Effect of the Risk of Violence in Northern Uganda
Although the effects of insecurity are believed to be important, these have never been directly measured. Previous estimates of the costs of conflict have only captured the joint effect of violence and insecurity. The distinction is important for u...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/04/26224162/cost-fear-welfare-effect-risk-violence-northern-uganda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24216 |
| Summary: | Although the effects of insecurity are
believed to be important, these have never been directly
measured. Previous estimates of the costs of conflict have
only captured the joint effect of violence and insecurity.
The distinction is important for understanding the origins
of the costs and for policy design. Spatially disaggregated
measures of insecurity are created based on the
spatial-temporal variation in the placement of violence.
These are used to generate the first estimates of the
relative causal contributions of the risk and experience of
violence. The article also provides the first micro-data
based counterpart to the cross-country literature on the
costs of conflict. |
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