"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 …

"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 …

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