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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 …
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This paper examines the economic consequences of terror attacks and the channels through which terrorism affects local … randomness in the success or failure of terror attacks to identify the economic impacts of terrorism. The findings suggest that …
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Can media coverage of a terrorist organization encourage their execution of further attacks? This paper analyzes the …
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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...
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We study the effects of terrorism in Spain on birth outcomes, focusing on terrorism perpetrated by ETA, combining … between January 1980 and February 2003 and find that in utero exposure to terrorism early in pregnancy, as measured by the …
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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...
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There is surprisingly little evidence on how terror attacks impact elections. With only a few exceptions, previous studies in this literature have focused on a particular country or attack, limiting their generalizability. Ours is the first comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects...
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the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) to estimate the relationship between terrorist attacks and female labor supply. We …
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We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment …, and radicalization via an instrumental variable strategy based on wind. Drone strikes are suggested to encourage terrorism …
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In this paper we investigate whether the effects of terrorism in one country spillover to affect trade in neighboring … stock measures of terrorism, and even for terrorist incidents with zero casualties. Spillovers from terrorism are relatively … long-lived, depressing bilateral trade up to five years after a terrorist event. Our findings are consistent with terrorism …
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