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Can Militants Use Violence to Win Public Support? Evidence from the Second Intifada

Jaeger, David A. - 2010

This paper investigates whether attacks against Israeli targets help Palestinian factions gain public support. We link individual level survey data to the full list of Israeli fatalities during the period of the Second Intifada (2000-2006), and estimate a flexible discrete choice model for...

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Economic Conditions and the Quality of Suicide Terrorism

Benmelech, Efraim - 2010

We analyze the link between economic conditions and the quality of suicide terrorism. While the existing empirical literature shows that poverty and economic conditions are not correlated with the quantity of terror, theory predicts that poverty and poor economic conditions may affect the...

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The Economic Cost of Harboring Terrorism

Benmelech, Efraim - 2009

The literature on conflict and terrorism has paid little attention to the economic costs of terrorism for the perpetrators. This paper aims to fill that gap by examining the economic costs of committing suicide terror attacks. Using data covering the universe of Palestinian suicide terrorists...

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Attack Assignments in Terror Organizations and the Productivity of Suicide Bombers

Benmelech, Efraim - 2007

This paper studies the relation between human capital of suicide bombers and outcomes of their suicide attacks. We argue that human capital is an important factor in the production of terrorism, and that if terrorists behave rationally we should observe that more able suicide bombers are...

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The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds : Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada

Jaeger, David A. - 2010

his paper examines how violence in the Second Intifada influences Palestinian public opinion. Using micro data from a series of opinion polls linked to data on fatalities, we find that Israeli violence against Palestinians leads them to support more radical factions and more radical attitudes...

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Education, Poverty, Political Violence and Terrorism : Is There a Causal Connection?

Krueger, Alan B.; Maleckova, Jitka - 2022

The paper investigates whether there is a causal link between poverty or low education and participation in politically motivated violence and terrorist activities. After presenting a discussion of theoretical issues, we review evidence on the determinants of hate crimes. This literature finds...

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On the Persistent Financial Losses of U.S. Airlines : A Preliminary Exploration

Borenstein, Severin - 2011

U.S. airlines have lost nearly $60 billion (2009 dollars) in domestic markets since deregulation, most of it in the last decade. More than 30 years after domestic airline markets were deregulated, the dismal financial record is a puzzle that challenges the economics of deregulation. I examine...

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The Welfare Economics of Default Options in 401(K) Plans

Bernheim, B. Douglas - 2011

Default contribution rates for 401(k) pension plans powerfully influence workers' choices. Potential causes include opt-out costs, procrastination, inattention, and psychological anchoring. We examine the welfare implications of defaults under each of these theories. We show how the optimal...

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Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives Through Loss Aversion : A Field Experiment

Fryer, Roland G. - 2012

this paper, we demonstrate that exploiting the power of loss aversion--teachers are paid in advance and asked to give back … arm, identical to the loss aversion treatment but implemented in the standard fashion, yields smaller and statistically … insignificant results. This suggests it is loss aversion, rather than other features of the design or population sampled, that leads …

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The Political Risks of Fighting Market Failures : Subversion, Populism and the Government Sponsored Enterprises

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2012

There are many possible ways of reforming the Government-Sponsored Enterprises that insure mortgages against default, including a purely public option, complete privatization or a hybrid model with private firms and public catastrophic insurance. If the government is sufficiently capable and...

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