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Saving lives in armed conflicts: What factors matter?

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  • Pavel A. Yakovlev

    (Palumbo-Donahue School of Business, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA)

Abstract

Despite the trend toward fewer armed conflicts and war deaths, dramatic variations in conflict casualties exist across countries. This article examines what factors affect casualties in civil as well as interstate wars and finds that conflict casualties are directly influenced by geography and military expenditure per soldier. The latter proxies for military capital intensity and is of concern to policymakers because it affects the level of conflict casualties. Specifically, the article finds that military expenditure per soldier lowers conflict casualties and is significantly influenced by conscription, education, per capita GDP, geography, and political and economic freedoms.

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  • Pavel A. Yakovlev, 2008. "Saving lives in armed conflicts: What factors matter?," Economics of Peace and Security Journal, EPS Publishing, vol. 3(2), pages 68-73, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:epc:journl:v:3:y:2008:i:2:p:68-73
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    Cited by:

    1. Pavel Yakovlev, 2011. "The Economics of Torture," Chapters, in: Christopher J. Coyne & Rachel L. Mathers (ed.), The Handbook on the Political Economy of War, chapter 7, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    2. Pavel Yakovlev & Brandon Spleen, 2022. "Make concentrated trade not war?," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 26(2), pages 661-686, May.
    3. Yakovlev, Pavel & Sobel, Russell S., 2010. "Occupational safety and profit maximization: Friends or foes?," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 39(3), pages 429-435, June.

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    Keywords

    Peace; security; armed conflict;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
    • H56 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - National Security and War

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