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The Effect of Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq
Condra, Luke N.; Felter, Joseph H.; Iyengar, Radha K.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
A central question in intrastate conflicts is how insurgents are able to mobilize supporters to participate in violent and risky activities. A common explanation is that violence committed by counterinsurgent forces mobilizes certain segments of the population through a range of mechanisms. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611566
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Counter-Suicide-Terrorism: Evidence from House Demolitions
Benmelech, Efraim; Klor, Esteban F.; Berrebi, Claude - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper examines whether house demolitions are an effective counterterrorism tactic against suicide terrorism. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685011
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Poverty, Political Freedom, and the Roots of Terrorism
Abadie, Alberto - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
This article provides an empirical investigation of the determinants of terrorism at the country level. In contrast … with the previous literature on this subject, which focuses on transnational terrorism only, I use a new measure of … terrorism that encompasses both domestic and transnational terrorism. In line with the results of some recent studies, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575610
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Do Working Men Rebel? Insurgency and Unemployment in Iraq and the Philippines
Berman, Eli; Callen, Michael; Felter, Joseph H.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Most aid spending by governments seeking to rebuild social and political order is based on an opportunity-cost theory of distracting potential recruits. The logic is that gainfully employed young men are less likely to participate in political violence, implying a positive correlation between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008625938
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Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq
Berman, Eli; Shapiro, Jacob N.; Felter, Joseph H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We develop and test an economic theory of insurgency motivated by the informal literature and by recent military doctrine. We model a three-way contest between violent rebels, a government seeking to minimize violence by mixing service provision and coercion, and civilians deciding whether to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714535
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The Economic Cost of Harboring Terrorism
Benmelech, Efraim; Klor, Esteban F.; Berrebi, Claude - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
The literature on conflict and terrorism has paid little attention to the economic costs of terrorism for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615781
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National Borders, Conflict and Peace
Spolaore, Enrico - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper provides a summary of ideas and concepts from the economics literature on the size of nations; illustrates them within an analytical framework where populations engage in conflict over borders and resources,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628424
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Choosing Between Peace and War
Grossman, Herschel I. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
Although most disputes between groups of people are settled peacefully, sometimes disputes result in war. This lecture uses historical examples to illustrate how the ability to negotiate a credible peaceful settlement of a dispute between sovereign states, typically a dispute over the control of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714488
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The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada
Jaeger, David; Klor, Esteban F.; Paserman, M. Daniele; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
his paper examines how violence in the Second Intifada influences Palestinian public opinion. Using micro data from a series of opinion polls linked to data on fatalities, we find that Israeli violence against Palestinians leads them to support more radical factions and more radical attitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714870
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Peace and War in Territorial Disputes
Grossman, Herschel I. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
Why do sovereign states sometimes fail to settle territorial disputes peacefully? Also, why do even peaceful settlements of territorial disputes rarely call for the resulting border to be unfortified? This paper explores a class of answers to these questions that is based on the following...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005717939