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

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Gilligan, Michael J. “Do UN Interventions Cause Peace? Using Matching to Improve Causal Inference.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 3, no. 2 (July 31, 2008): 89–122. https://doi.org/10.1561/100.00007051.

• Argues that the normal approaches for measuring by counterfactuals don’t work
  • UN internventions are not randomly assigned, so selection bias is present
• finds that there is a casual effect