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POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
Volume 41, Issue -, Pages 1-10Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.03.001
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Quantitative methods; GIS analysis; Civil war; Indiscriminate violence; Causal inference
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This paper introduces a new method for finding causal relationships in spatiotemporal event data with potential applications in conflict research, criminology, and epidemiology. The method analyzes how different types of interventions affect subsequent levels of reactive events. Sliding spatiotemporal windows and statistical matching are used for robust and clean causal inference. Thereby, two well-described empirical problems in establishing causal relationships in event data analysis are resolved: the modifiable areal unit problem and selection bias. The paper presents the method formally and demonstrates its effectiveness in Monte Carlo simulations and an empirical example by showing how instances of civilian assistance to US forces changed in response to indiscriminate insurgent violence in Iraq. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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