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On the Heterogeneity of Terror
Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2012
The existing literature on the determinants of terrorism treats terror as a uniform phenomenon and does not distinguish between different types of terror. This paper explicitly addresses the heterogeneity of terror by classifying groups according to their ideologies. We show that the pattern of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104966
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Terrorism, Immigration and Asylum Approval
Brodeur, Abel - 2019
Using the universe of individual asylum cases in the United States from 2000-2004 and a difference-in-differences research design, we test whether Sept. 11, 2001 decreased the likelihood that applicants from Muslim-majority countries were granted asylum. Our estimates suggest that the attacks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861315
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Military Intervention Via Drone Strikes
Mahmood, Rafat - 2019
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 in Pakistan, bearing responsibility for 16 percent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870163
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The Impact of Fundamentalist Terrorism on School Enrolment : Evidence from North-Western Pakistan, 2004-09
Khan, Sarah - 2016
Islamist groups in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere have sought to remove females from public life. This paper uses … Pakistani Taliban's terror campaign in the north-western province of Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa aimed at removing girls from school … commonly been portrayed in the media. Finally, although the Taliban warned students to enrol in madrassas rather than secular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983905
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Are Drone Strikes Effective in Afghanistan and Pakistan? On the Dynamics of Violence between the United States and the Taliban
Jaeger, David A. - 2012
Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the … Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from January 2007 to December 2010. We find that drone strikes do not have any … significant impact on terrorist violence in Afghanistan but that drone strikes do have a significant impact on Taliban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112783
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Ethnic Fragmentation, Conflict, Displaced Persons and Human Trafficking : An Empirical Analysis
Akee, Randall - 2010
fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138737
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Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys
Brück, Tilman - 2010
, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139963
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Economics of Civil Conflict : Evidence from the Punjab Insurgency
Singh, Prakarsh - 2016
the economic causes and consequences of the conflict in Punjab, which has been classified as a civil war and also an …. Finally, I consider the macro and microeconomic effects of the conflict in Punjab that affected every walk of life and perhaps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978154
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Assimilation, Criminality and Ethnic Conflict
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2014
, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social … gains by: (a) facilitating economic interaction, and (b) dampening religious or racial conflict over symbolic and normative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058747
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A Model of Dynamic Conflict in Ethnocracies
Bakshi, Dripto - 2015
partly spills over into the next period, by affecting relative conflict efficiency. Our model generates non …-monotone evolution of both conflict and distribution. Results suggest that external interventions, when effective in reducing current … conflict and protecting weaker groups, may end up sowing the seeds of greater future conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016336