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Calamity, Conflict, and Cash Transfers: How Violence Affects Access to Aid in Pakistan

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  • Yashodhan Ghorpade

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I examine how exposure to conflict affected household-level access to cash transfers after the 2010 floods in Pakistan. Using instrumental variables estimation to overcome the endogeneity of conflict exposure and access to aid, I find that conflict reduced households’ access to two large government-run cash transfer programs— namely, the Citizens Damage Compensation Program and the Benazir Income Support Program —but had no effect on nonstate transfers. These effects are driven by the likely presence of the Taliban and affiliate groups, suggesting that attempts to deepen state presence in contested areas through public cash transfers may be resisted by rebel groups, resulting in lower coverage.

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  • Yashodhan Ghorpade, 2020. "Calamity, Conflict, and Cash Transfers: How Violence Affects Access to Aid in Pakistan," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 68(4), pages 1131-1184.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:ecdecc:doi:10.1086/702165
    DOI: 10.1086/702165
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    1. Yashodhan Ghorpade & Patricia Justino, 2019. "Winning or buying hearts and minds?: Cash transfers and political attitudes in Pakistan," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2019-91, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Yashodhan Ghorpade, 2022. "Forewarned, but not Forearmed?," World Bank Publications - Reports 38048, The World Bank Group.
    3. Muhammad Nasir, 2018. "Prenatal Exposure to Shocks and Early-Life Health: Impact of Terrorism and Flood on Birth Outcomes in Pakistan," Working Papers id:12580, eSocialSciences.
    4. Ghorpade,Yashodhan, 2022. "Forewarned, but not Forearmed? : Lessons for the Recent Floods in Pakistan from 2010," Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes 176248, The World Bank.
    5. Olivier Ecker & Afnan Al-Malk & Jean-François Maystadt, 2024. "Civil Conflict, Cash Transfers, and Child Nutrition in Yemen," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 72(4), pages 2069-2100.
    6. Klaus W. Deininger & Daniel Ayalew Ali, 2024. "Using Satellite Imagery and a Farmer Registry to Assess Agricultural Support in Conflict Settings : The Case of the Producer Support Grant Program in Ukraine," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10912, The World Bank.

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