Foreign Aid Shocks as a Cause of Violent Armed Conflict

By Richard A. Nielsen, Michael G. Findley, Z. Davis, T. Candland, Daniel L. Nielson. 2011

267 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Development, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3d014280a3d6caea11173860d9e9e6681afc0c8b

Citations in the corpus

• Covariate balancing propensity score for a continuous treatment: Application to the efficacy of political advertisements (2018, unknown): “…is that applied researchers across social and medical sciences often dichotomize a continuous treat-ment in order to utilize propensity score methods [e.g., Donohue III and Ho (2007), Harder, Stuart and Anthony (2008), Boyd, Epstein and Martin (2010), Nielsen et al. (2011), De and Ratha (2012)].”
• Foreign Aid, Human Rights and Democracy Promotion: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2017, unknown): “Some scholars even argue that severe decreases in aid can lead to conflict, though we do not examine the effects of such dramatic reductions in aid (Nielsen et al. 2011).”
• Tracking Underreported Financial Flows: China’s Development Finance and the Aid–Conflict Nexus Revisited (2017, unknown): “To demonstrate the importance of including non-OECD donors, like China, when testing for relationships between aid and armed conflict, we replicate the analysis in Nielsen et al. (2011), including our data on Chinese aid.”