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The effect of the Theo van Gogh murder on house prices in Amsterdam
Gautier, Pieter (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper estimates the impact of the murder of film maker Theo van Gogh on November 2, 2004, on listed house prices in Amsterdam with a unique dataset. We use an hedonic-market approach to show that general attitudes towards Muslim minorities were negatively affected by the murder....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003529731
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Persistence of civil wars
Acemoglu, Daron; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2009
A notable feature of post-World War II civil wars is their very long average duration. We provide a theory of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898127
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Peace, terrorism, or civil conflict? : understanding the decision of an opposition group
Jetter, Michael - 2016
When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against … the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493846
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Understanding the development of fundamentalism
Gang, Ira N. (contributor); Epstein, Gil S. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002181612
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Police patrols and crime
Blanes i Vidal, Jordi; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2018
An influential literature has used the aftermath of terrorist attacks to estimate large effects of police street deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard circumstances. This paper exploits a natural experiment that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814730
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Guns and butter? : fighting violence with the promise of development
Khanna, Gaurav; Zimmermann, Laura V. - 2015
There is growing awareness that development-oriented government policies may be an important counterinsurgency strategy, but existing papers are usually unable to disentangle various mechanisms. Using a regression-discontinuity design, we analyze the impact of one of the world's largest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289893
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Terrorism and integration of muslim immigrants
Elsayed, Ahmed; Grip, Andries de - 2013
terrorism has a particularly negative impact on the integration of the highly educated, employed, and less religious Muslims …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009783672
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The impact of fundamentalist terrorism on school enrolment : evidence from North-Western Pakistan, 2004-09
Khan, Sarah; Seltzer, Andrew - 2016
data from Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement and the Global Terrorism Database to examine the impact of the … terrorism had little effect on school enrolment. High levels of exposure reduced the enrolment rate for boys by about 5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528137
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Money can't buy love but can it buy peace? : evidence from the EU programme for peace and reconciliation
Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T. N. - 2014
In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement concluded a period of violence in Northern Ireland yet the scars of the conflict remained prevalent in the political landscape. Rival communities remained divided, economic performance was poor and intercommunity tensions frequently manifested. In a bid to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403908
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The effect of community traumatic events on student achievement : evidence from the Beltway Sniper attacks
Gershenson, Seth; Tekin, Erdal - 2015
Community traumatic events such as mass shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural or man-made disasters have the potential to disrupt student learning in numerous ways. For example, these events can reduce instructional time by causing teacher and student absences, school closures, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010503464