@article{2e540693d2c34e71ad150e583d303b9c,
title = "Export Crops and Civil Conflict",
abstract = "Many experts see a move toward high-value export crops, such as fruits and vegetables, as an important opportunity for economic growth and poverty reduction, but little is known about the effects of export crops in fragile and conflict-affected countries. We exploit movements in world market prices combined with geographic variation in crop production to show that increases in the value of bananas, the country's biggest export crop, caused an increase in conflict violence and insurgent-controlled territory in the Philippines. This effect was concentrated in provinces where bananas are produced in large plantations with areas greater than 25 hectares. Our results are consistent with a mechanism in which insurgents fund their operations by extorting large agricultural export firms. ",
author = "Benjamin Crost and Felter, {Joseph H.}",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgments: We would like to thank Sam Bazzi, Eli Berman, Chris Blattman, Oeindrila Dube, Oliver van den Eynde, Jake Shapiro, Austin Wright, as well as seminar participants at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois, and conference audiences at the American Economic Association, Northeast Universities Economic Development Consortium, and Midwest International Economic Development Conference. This research was supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Hatch project 1005422. Chorus: Funder: U.S. Department of Agriculture; Sub-Organisation: National Institute of Food and Agriculture; Grant/Award number: Hatch project 470-373. E-mail: bencrost@illinois.edu (Crost); joseph.felter@stanford.edu (Felter) Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of European Economic Association.",
year = "2020",
month = jun,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1093/jeea/jvz025",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "18",
pages = "1484--1520",
journal = "Journal of the European Economic Association",
issn = "1542-4774",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "3",
}