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Modest, Secure and Informed: Successful Development in Conflict Zones
Berman, Eli; Felter, Joseph; Shapiro, Jacob N.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Most interpretations of prevalent counterinsurgency theory imply that increasing government services will reduce rebel violence. Empirically, however, development programs and economic activity sometimes yield increased violence. Using new panel data on development spending in Iraq, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821767
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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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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 … to other fatalities. Although overall Israeli fatalities do not seem to affect Palestinian public opinion, when we divide …
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
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Hard Targets: Theory and Evidence on Suicide Attacks
Berman, Eli; Laitin, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829597
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Collateral Damage: Trade Disruption and the Economic Impact of War
Glick, Reuven; Taylor, Alan M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
of World War I and World War II. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005777720
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Can Militants Use Violence to Win Public Support? Evidence from the Second Intifada
Jaeger, David; Klor, Esteban F.; Paserman, M. Daniele; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
notion that Palestinian factions use violence to gain prestige and influence public opinion within the community. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683274
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Predation, Taxation, Investment and Violence: Evidence from the Philippines
Berman, Eli; Felter, Joseph; Kapstein, Ethan; Troland, Erin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper explores the relationship between investment and political violence through several possible mechanisms. Investment as a predictor of future violence implies that low private sector investment today provides a robust indicator of high violence tomorrow. "Rent-capture" or predation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951034