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The Effect of Migration on Terror - Made at Home or Imported from Abroad?
Dreher, Axel - 2017
We analyze the causal effect of the stock of foreigners residing in a country on the probability of a terrorist attack in that country. Our instrument for the stock of foreigners relies on the interactions of two sets of variables. Variation across host-origin-dyads results from structural...
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The Intricacy of Adapting to Climate Change : Flood Protection as a Local Public Goods Game
Bondarev, Anton A. - 2017
We study adaptation to climate change in a federalist setting. To protect themselves against an increase in flood risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960103
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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel : Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War
van Praag, B.M.S. - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137879
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Commodity Taxation and Regulatory Competition
Moriconi, Simone - 2017
This paper studies theoretically and empirically competition in commodity taxation and product market regulation between trading partner countries. We present a two-country general equilibrium model in which destination-based commodity taxes finance public goods, and product market regulation...
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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 - 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 …
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The Effect of Terrorist Incidents on Capital Flows
Filer, Randall K. - 2013
Current literature shows a significant negative impact of terrorism on countries economies. We explore this … relationship in more detail. Using an unbalanced panel of over 160 countries for up to 25 years and the Global Terrorism Database … (GTD) we show a decrease in FDI as a consequence of terrorism. We also find evidence that FDI flows are more sensitive to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089605
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This Mine is Mine! How Minerals Fuel Conflicts in Africa
Berman, Nicolas - 2015
We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at spatial resolution of 0.5o x 0.5o for all Africa over 1997-2010. Exploiting exogenous variations in world prices, we find a positive impact of mining on conflict at the local level....
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Does Terror Threaten Human Rights? Evidence from Panel Data
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2021
imprisonment, and torture. To some extent, civil rights are also restricted as a consequence of terrorism, while we find no effect … of terrorism on empowerment rights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317184
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Inequality and Happiness : When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality do not Match
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2010
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the perceived and the actual fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a simple model of individual labor-market participation under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136696
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Estimating the Influence of Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect on Later Income Using Sibling Fixed-Effects
De Neve, Jan‐Emmanuel - 2012
show that adolescents and young adults who report higher life satisfaction or positive affect grow up to earn significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097111