Do UN Interventions Cause Peace? Using Matching to Improve Causal Inference

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Quarterly Journal of Political Science

• Publication date

  2008-07-28

• Fields of study

  Economics, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1561/100.00007051
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