Many experts claim that the incidence of suicide attacks is driven by religious cleavages. To test this hypothesis, we … investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country … the actual perpetrators and victims of suicide attacks. Our results do not indicate that religious cleavages are an …

This survey provides an in-depth analysis of existing research on the economic analysis of terrorism and counter …-terrorist measures. First the existing evidence on the causes of terrorism is analyzed, then we consider the evidence of the consequences … of terrorism and we demonstrate why it is important to regarding of the issue of counter-terrorism policy. Moreover the …

This survey provides an in-depth analysis of existing research on the economic analysis of terrorism and counter …-terrorist measures. First the existing evidence on the causes of terrorism is analyzed, then we consider the evidence of the consequences … of terrorism and we demonstrate why it is important to regarding of the issue of counter-terrorism policy. Moreover the …

the ability to utilize either or both suicide and conventional terrorism tactics. The terrorist organization’s objective …In this paper we examine a model of terrorism which focuses on the tradeoffs facing a terrorist organization that has … any and all attacks. In this context, we examine how terrorist entities strategically utilize suicide attacks when other …

We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for …. We test the theory using a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 counties in 19th-century Prussia, when religiousness was … circumvent selectivity bias. Protestantism had a substantial positive effect on suicide in 1816-21 and 1869-71. We address issues …

In an economic theory of suicide, we model social cohesion of the religious community and religious beliefs about … afterlife as two mechanisms by which Protestantism increases suicide propensity. We build a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 … suicide. We address issues of bias from mental illness, misreporting, weather conditions, within-county heterogeneity …

We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … 1970-2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with a … large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth tends …

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 …

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 …