Who chooses suicide attacks? Though rebels typically target poor countries, suicide attacks are just as likely to … target rich democracies. Though many groups have grievances, suicide attacks are favored by the radical religious. Though … rebels often kill coreligionists, they seldom use suicide attacks to do so. We model the choice of tactics by rebels, bearing …

rational terrorists support terrorism and even commit suicide attacks. In line with empirical findings, income levels play no …Terrorist models often focus on one kind of agent as well as one motive to pursue terrorism. Our model diverges from …

. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions receive significantly more coverage, which …-Blinder decompositions, suggesting that it is not the particular characteristics of suicide attacks (e.g., more casualties) that are driving … for suicide attacks conducted in countries ruled by leftist administrations. Fourth, the more a country trades with the US …

Many experts claim that the incidence of suicide attacks is driven by religious cleavages. To test this hypothesis, we … investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country … the actual perpetrators and victims of suicide attacks. Our results do not indicate that religious cleavages are an …

counterproductive consequences. This paper models a terrorist organization, a religious group from which the terrorists recruit suicide …

This paper examines whether house demolitions are an effective counterterrorism tactic against suicide terrorism. We … suicide attacks against Israeli targets. By exploiting spatial and time variation in house demolitions and suicide terror … attacks during the second Palestinian uprising, we show that punitive house demolitions (those targeting Palestinian suicide …

We analyze the link between economic conditions and the quality of suicide terrorism. While the existing empirical … literature shows that poverty and economic conditions are not correlated with the quantity of terror, theory predicts that …, higher-impact, terror missions. Using the universe of Palestinian suicide terrorists against Israeli targets between the …