Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War

Benjamin F. Jones, Benjamin A. Olken

NBER Working Paper No. 13102
Issued in May 2007

---- Acknowledgments ----

We thank Ernesto Dal Bó, Amy Finkelstein, Hein Goemans, Michael Gordin, Katerina Linos, and Tara Zahra for helpful comments. Meghna Alladi, Nathaniel Kiechel, Ariana Kroshinky, Lauren Raouf, Pat Regan, and Atanas Stoyanov provided invaluable research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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