Replication Exercise: Armed Groups

The aim of this repository is to conduct a replication study of the following research paper:

Gassebner, Martin & Schaudt, Paul & Wong, Melvin H.L., 2023. "Armed groups: Competition and political violence," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 162(C). Available here

🚀 Prerequisites

Virtual Environment

Create and activate the python virtual environment in the local project folder

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate

If this step is successfull the comand line displays the prefix (env). Continue by installing required Python packages

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Note: To create or update the requirements file, please run

pip freeze > requirements.txt

Data Directory

The data used for replication is available under the following links

• Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX): Pakistan - Subnational Administrative Boundaries
• Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
• UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset (GED)

The data directory is structured as follows

data
├── ged
│   ├── GEDEvent_v23_1.csv
│   └── ged231.pdf
├── gtd
│   ├── Codebook.pdf
│   ├── GTDEULA2022.pdf
│   ├── globalterrorismdb_0522dist.xlsx
│   └── globalterrorismdb_2021Jan-June_1222dist.xlsx
└── pak_adm_wfp_20220909_shp
    ├── pak_admbnda_adm2_wfp_20220909.shp
    └── ...

📖 Replicated Figures

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💭 Ideas for Next Steps

• Explore variation in the method of attacks