Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies

Data Type
Administrative Data
Event Data
Survey Data
Country

Description

The replication data includes information on bombings, economic, governance, civic society outcomes from the Hamlet Evaluation System (HES) in Vietnam, administrative data on US and South Vietnamese armed forces (enemy-initiated attacks, naval incidents, and casualties), and public opinion data on citizen attitudes towards local and national government and the war at the village and province level.

Citation: Dell, Melissa, and Pablo Querubin. “Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 133, no. 2 (2018): 701-764.

Coverage
Subnational
Provincial and below
Cross Sectional