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 understanding the origins of the costs and for policy...

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Main Author:	Rockmore, Marc
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2019
Subjects:	VIOLENCE INSECURITY CONFLICT DEATH HUMAN RIGHTS CRIME FRAGILE STATES
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31471

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spelling	okr-10986-314712021-05-25T10:54:37Z The Cost of Fear : The Welfare Effect of the Risk of Violence in Northern Uganda Rockmore, Marc VIOLENCE INSECURITY CONFLICT DEATH HUMAN RIGHTS CRIME FRAGILE STATES 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. Using the spatial-temporal variation in the placement of violence, I create spatially disaggregated measures of insecurity and present 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. 2019-04-01T16:58:08Z 2019-04-01T16:58:08Z 2017-10-01 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31471 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Uganda
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description	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. Using the spatial-temporal variation in the placement of violence, I create spatially disaggregated measures of insecurity and present 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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author	Rockmore, Marc
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title	The Cost of Fear : The Welfare Effect of the Risk of Violence in Northern Uganda
title_short	The Cost of Fear : The Welfare Effect of the Risk of Violence in Northern Uganda
title_full	The Cost of Fear : The Welfare Effect of the Risk of Violence in Northern Uganda
title_fullStr	The Cost of Fear : The Welfare Effect of the Risk of Violence in Northern Uganda
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title_sort	cost of fear : the welfare effect of the risk of violence in northern uganda
publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
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The Cost of Fear : The Welfare Effect of the Risk of Violence in Northern Uganda

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