Replication data for: No Easy Choices: Estimating the Effects of United Nations Peacekeeping (Response to King and Zeng)

In a study published in the American Political Science Review, we argued that United Nations peace operations have had a positive effect on peacebuilding processes after civil war and presented empirical evidence in support of our claim. Gary King and Langche Zeng have criticized our conclusions for being dependent on indefensible theoretical assumptions and unsupported by the empirical evidence. We show that their critique is based on a misinterpretation of our arguments, that our results are robust to alternative econometric assumptions, that their diagnostic tools cannot be meaningfully applied to our data and that they cannot be used to establish the validity of counterfactual inference.发表于《美国政治科学评论》的一项研究中，我们提出联合国维和行动对内战结束后的和平建设进程具有积极影响，并提供了经验证据以支撑我们的论断。加里·金（Gary King）与曾朗杰（Langche Zeng）批评我们的结论依赖于站不住脚的理论假设，且缺乏经验证据支撑。我们表明，该批评实则源于对我们研究论点的误读：其一，我们的研究结果对各类替代性计量经济学假设均具备稳健性；其二，他们所采用的诊断工具无法有效应用于我们的数据集；其三，该工具亦无法用于验证反事实推断（counterfactual inference）的有效性。