Three Essays in Development and Applied Micro
Journal: SHAREOK (University of Oklahoma)
Year: 2018

Chapter 1: We explore what effect horizontal communication technologies, like mobile phones and the internet, had on levels of violence in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. We exploit a quasi-experiment within the civil war, where after Libya’s dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, severed telecommunication access in the eastern regions of Libya, the rebels were able to create their own network through a combination of ingenuity and luck. Using difference-in-differences and relying on the exogenous reactivation f