@article{THESIS,
      recid = {2898},
      author = {Sheppard, Matthias},
      title = {U.S. Food Aid, Civil Conflict, and the End of the Cold  War},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {M.A.},
      address = {2021-06},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {This thesis explores whether accounting for the end of the  Cold War affects the relationship between U.S. food aid and  conflict incidence. By replicating and extending Nathan  Nunn and Nancy Qian’s 2014 article “U.S. Food Aid and Civil  Conflict,” this thesis finds that the end of the Cold War  does matter for understanding this relationship. During the  Cold War, U.S. food aid increases both conflict duration  and the likelihood of conflict onset. In contrast, once the  Cold War ends, U.S. food aid has no statistically  significant relation to either conflict duration or onset.  To explain these results, this thesis argues that the end  of the Cold War fundamentally changed how civil wars are  fought, how the state government is perceived, and how  foreign aid is distributed. },
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2898},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.2898},
}