What Makes a Homegrown Terrorist? Human Capital and Participation in Domestic Islamic Terrorist Groups in the U.S.A.

This paper compares the characteristics of 63 alleged homegrown Islamic terrorists in the U.S.A. to a representative sample of 1,000+ Muslim Americans. The alleged terrorists have about average level of education. Those with higher education were judged closer to succeeding.

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Year of publication:	2008-08
Authors:	Krueger, Alan B.
Institutions:	Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics
Subject:	terrorism \| homegrown terrorism \| human capital

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Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 1094
Classification:	H56 - National Security and War ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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