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The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks
Gershenson, Seth; Tekin, Erdal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Community traumatic events such as mass shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural or man-made disasters have the potential to disrupt student learning in numerous ways. For example, these events can reduce instructional time by causing teacher and student absences, school closures, and...
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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel: Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Romanov, Dmitri; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...
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Learning Unethical Practices from a Co-worker: The Peer Effect of Jose Canseco
Gould, Eric D.; Kaplan, Todd R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, one of the best baseball players in the last few decades, affected the performance of his teammates. In his...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761622
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Trust and Bribery: The Role of the Quid Pro Quo and the Link with Crime
Hunt, Jennifer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
bribe, which reduces corruption. Appropriate networks are more easily established in small towns, by long-term residents of … the prevalence of bribery is lower under these circumstances, using the International Crime Victim Surveys. I also find … battle against corruption faced by policy-makers in rapidly urbanizing countries with high fertility. I show that victims of …
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The Effects of 9/11 on Attitudes Toward Immigration and the Moderating Role of Education
Schüller, Simone - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
negative terrorism shock. …
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Money Can't Buy Love But Can It Buy Peace? Evidence from the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation
Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T.N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement concluded a period of violence in Northern Ireland yet the scars of the conflict remained prevalent in the political landscape. Rival communities remained divided, economic performance was poor and intercommunity tensions frequently manifested. In a bid to...
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Terrorism and the Media
Jetter, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions receive significantly more coverage, which could explain their increased popularity among terrorist...
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Israel, the Palestinian Factions, and the Cycle of Violence
Jaeger, David A.; Paserman, M. Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In this study we extend our previous work to examine the dynamic relationship between violence committed by Palestinian factions and that committed by Israel during the Second Intifada. We find a statistically significant relationship between Israeli fatalities claimed by groups associated with...
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Who Is the Enemy?
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve the same people in common cause against a common enemy. The groups compete for rents obtained from the public by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703639
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Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis
Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
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