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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.; Siddique, Zahra - 2011
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/10010286855
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On the heterogeneity of terror
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Liebert, Helge; Schulze, Günther G. - 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/10010283966
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Terrorism, Immigration and Asylum Approval
Brodeur, Abel; Wright, Taylor - 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/10012141271
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On the Heterogeneity of Terror
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Liebert, Helge; Schulze, Günther G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10010775591
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Guns, drugs and juvenile crime : evidence from a panel of siblings and twins
Mocan, H. Naci; Tekin, Erdal - 2003
inhalants or other drugs is an increase in the propensity to commit crime by 7 and 6 percentage points, respectively. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261637
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Guns, Drugs and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Panel of Siblings and Twins
Mocan, H. Naci; Tekin, Erdal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
inhalants or other drugs is an increase in the propensity to commit crime by 7 and 6 percentage points, respectively. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762067
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The Impact of Fundamentalist Terrorism on School Enrolment: Evidence from North-Western Pakistan, 2004-09
Khan, Sarah; Seltzer, Andrew - 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/10011559596
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Military Intervention via Drone Strikes
Mahmood, Rafat; Jetter, Michael - 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/10012006018
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The Relationship between Female Labor Force Participation and Violent Conflicts in South Asia
Robertson, Raymond; Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys; Morales, Matias - 2020
This paper explores the link between the prevalence of violent conflicts and extremely low female labor force participation rates (FLFPR) in South Asia. We merge Labor Force Surveys (LFSs) from Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka, India, and Pakistan to the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180148
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Diasporas and Conflict
Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Verdier, Thierry - 2016
involved in the conflict by transferring financial resources to its origin country. We find that the diaspora influences the …We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor … conflict equilibrium, the two groups of residents prefer to negotiate a peaceful settlement if there exists a sharing rule that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559702