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Religiosity and Terrorism : Evidence from Ramadan Fasting
Hodler, Roland - 2019
This study examines the effect of religiosity on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan … countries. We argue that this effect partly operates through a decrease in public support for terrorism, which in turn reduces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892037
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Armed Groups in Conflict : Competition and Political Violence in Pakistan
Gassebner, Martin - 2020
This paper studies how an increase in the number of armed groups operating within an area affects the amount of organized political violence. We use plausible exogenous variation in the number of armed groups in Pakistan, by exploiting the split of a major group due to the natural death of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830355
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Religiosity and Terrorism: Evidence from Ramadan Fasting
Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; Strittmatter, Anthony - 2018
This study examines the effect of religiosity on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan … countries. We argue that this effect partly operates through a decrease in public support for terrorism, which in turn reduces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932063
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Armed Groups in Conflict: Competition and Political Violence in Pakistan
Gassebner, Martin; Schaudt, Paul; Wong, Melvin H. L. - 2020
This paper studies how an increase in the number of armed groups operating within an area affects the amount of organized political violence. We use plausible exogenous variation in the number of armed groups in Pakistan, by exploiting the split of a major group due to the natural death of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269442
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Calculating tragedy : assessing the costs of terrorism
Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2004
surveyed and put in perspective. As economic consequences are only a part of the overall costs of terrorism, possible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261089
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War and relatedness
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2009
We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a positive effect on their conflict propensities because more closely related populations, on average, tend to interact more and develop more disputes over sets of common issues. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266016
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Opium for the masses?: conflict-induced narcotics production in Afghanistan
Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove; Willumsen, Fredrik - 2009
We show that the recent rise in Afghan opium production is caused by violent conflicts. Violence destroys roads and irrigation, crucial to alternative crops, and weakens local incentives to rebuild infrastructure and enforce law and order. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264577
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Lock, stock, and barrel: A comprehensive assessment of the determinants of terror
Gassebner, Martin; Luechinger, Simon - 2011
We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three … most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277394
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Class Warfare : Political Exclusion of the Poor and the Roots of Social-Revolutionary Terrorism, 1860-1950
Klotzbuecher, Valentin; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2021
We examine the effect of class cleavages on terrorist activity by anarchist and leftist terrorist groups in 99 American, Asian and European countries over the 1860-1950 period. We find that higher levels of political exclusion of the poor, our main measure of class conflict, were associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224083
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Paying Them to Hate Us : The Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Anti-American Terrorism, 1968-2014
Dimant, Eugen - 2020
provide causal estimates of the effect of U.S. military aid on anti-American terrorism. We find that higher levels of military … aid led to an increased likelihood of the recipient country to produce anti-American terrorism. For our preferred … instrumental-variable specification, doubling U.S. military aid increases the risk of anti-American terrorism by 4.4 percentage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828790