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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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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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This paper argues that terrorism, beyond its immediate impact on innocent victims, also raises the costs of crime, and … therefore, imposes a negative externality on potential criminals. Terrorism raises the costs of crime through two channels: (i …
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the help of a latent estimation approach (MIMIC procedure). The figures show that Al Qaeda and other terror organizations … developed countries and some strategies are presented to combat the financing of terrorism. -- Financial flows of terrorist …
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support that notion. -- Intifada ; terrorism ; Granger causality …
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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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terrorism has a particularly negative impact on the integration of the highly educated, employed, and less religious Muslims …
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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...
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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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