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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel. Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War
Praag, Bernard M.S. Van; Romanov, Dmitri; … - CESifo - 2010
vary in religiosity between secular and ultra–orthodox. We find a significant effect of religiosity on happiness. With …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671691
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Recession Depression: Mental Health Effects of the 2008 Stock Market Crash
McInerney, Melissa; Mellor, Jennifer M.; Nicholas, … - CESifo - 2013
How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock market accumulations may not inform this question if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877960
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The Long-Run Consequences of Chernobyl: Evidence on Subjective Well-Being, Mental Health and Welfare
Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - CESifo - 2014
This paper assesses the long-run toll taken by a large-scale technological disaster on welfare, well-being and mental health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in radioactive fallout to respondents of a nationally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790170
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Great Expectations and Hard Times - The (Nontrivial) Impact of Education on Domestic Terrorism
Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - CESifo - 2012
This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877794
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Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis
Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - CESifo - 2009
Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013064
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Looking Back on Anger: Explaining the Social Origins of Left-Wing and Nationalist-Separatist Terrorism in Western Europe, 1970-2007
Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - CESifo - 2012
A unique dataset is used to separately analyze the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in … types of ideologically or ethnically motivated terrorism make it plausible that they respond differently to specific social … strength) or nationalist-separatist terrorism (e.g., ethnic polarization, non-violent protest). However, both types of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010544186
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Violent Groups and Police Tactics: Should Tear Gas Make Crime Preventers Cry?
Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - CESifo - 2005
Democratic societies are challenged by various violent and organized groups, be they terrorists, gangs or organized hooligans. In exchange for offering an identity, leaders in such groups typically require members to be violent. We introduce a simple model to capture these stylized facts, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765839
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The Rise of Capitalism and the Roots of Anti-American Terrorism
Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - CESifo - 2014
This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 …-American terrorism increases with external economic liberalization or decreases with higher levels of economic openness. However …, consistent with economic norms theory, higher levels of market-capitalism are associated with less anti-American terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796436
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The Costs of Organized Violence: A Review of the Evidence
Skaperdas, Stergios - CESifo - 2009
), terrorism, and external conflicts, including military spending. There are a number of key theoretical concerns on what counts as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013055
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The Dynamics of Income-related Health Inequality among US Children
Chatterji, Pinka; Lahiri, Kajal; Song, Jingya - CESifo - 2011
We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the income-related health mobility index recently introduced byAllanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 waves of the Child Development Supplement (CDS) of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294101