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Effects of a large UCT on Violence, Protests, and Crime in Kenya

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socioeconomicpeace and security
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Ber
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The proposed study is an ancillary analysis of a randomized evaluation conducted by the NGO GiveDirectly in Western Kenya between 2014 and 2017, which sought to understand the general equilibrium effects of a large unconditional cash transfer. In this study, I will examine outcomes of the intervention that have not previously been analyzed. Specifically, I investigate the effects of the UCT on political violence, protest, and crime—including non-political violence—in Western Kenya, where the original RCT took place. Prior work on positive income shocks and conflict/crime suggests two countervailing mechanisms: (i) higher opportunity costs of engaging in violence and crime, and (ii) a rapacity effect driven by an increase in lootable resources. In this setting, I expect the opportunity-cost mechanism to dominate.

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