Replication Data for: \"The Taliban's return to power: An empirical analysis of the Afghan peace negotiations of 2018–2020\" Defence and Peace Economics

This replication package contains all the code necessary for data cleaning, as well as the transformed dataset relevant to the paper entitled \"The Taliban's Return to Power: An Empirical Analysis of the Afghan Peace Negotiations of 2018–2020\". Please note that data restrictions are in place; therefore, I am unable to share the raw ACLED data and Afghanistan districts layer. The raw ACLED data can be directly downloaded by any registered user from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) at https://acleddata.com. Detailed information on data cleaning is available within the shared codes, and the process is further explained in the main paper and the accompanying README file. This information should enable anyone with access to the ACLED dataset to computationally replicate all the results. However, the event study results using the raw data depend on the availability of Afghanistan's district shape layer from the National Information and Statistics Authority, which includes 400 districts.