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Reducing Crime and Violence : Experimental Evidence from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Liberia

Blattman, Christopher - 2015

We show that a number of “noncognitive” skills and preferences, including patience and identity, are malleable in adults, and that investments in them reduce crime and violence. We recruited criminally-engaged men and randomized half to eight weeks of cognitive behavioral therapy designed to...

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Stopping Suicide Attacks : Optimal Strategies and Unintended Consequences

McBride, Michael T. - 2010

counterproductive consequences. This paper models a terrorist organization, a religious group from which the terrorists recruit suicide …

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Counter-Suicide-Terrorism : Evidence from House Demolitions

Benmelech, Efraim - 2010

This paper examines whether house demolitions are an effective counterterrorism tactic against suicide terrorism. We …

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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 …

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Do Citizens Want the Truth About Terrorist Threats Regardless of the Consequences?

Smith, V. Kerry - 2010

This paper proposes the use of consumers' preferences in formulating policies for keeping secret information about terrorist activities and threats that might compromise future security. We report the results from two surveys indicating that people have clear preferences for full disclosure of...

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Corporate Demand for Insurance : an Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Market for Catastrophe and Non-Catastrophe Risks

Michel-Kerjan, Erwann - 2011

empirical analysis of firm behavior that compares corporate demand for property and catastrophe insurance (here, terrorism). We …

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Persecution Perpetuated : The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany

Voigtländer, Nico - 2011

How persistent are cultural traits? This paper uses data on anti-Semitism in Germany and finds continuity at the local level over more than half a millennium. When the Black Death hit Europe in 1348-50, killing between one third and one half of the population, its cause was unknown. Many...

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Modest, Secure and Informed : Successful Development in Conflict Zones

Berman, Eli - 2013

Most interpretations of prevalent counterinsurgency theory imply that increasing government services will reduce rebel violence. Empirically, however, development programs and economic activity sometimes yield increased violence. Using new panel data on development spending in Iraq, we show that...

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Corporate Demand for Insurance : New Evidence from the U.S. Terrorism and Property Markets

Michel-Kerjan, Erwann - 2013

Since the passage of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002, corporate terrorism insurance is sold as a separate … and terrorism insurance. Using a unique dataset of insurance policies purchased by large U.S. firms, combined with … to obtain consistent estimates of premium elasticity of corporate demand for property and terrorism coverage. Our …

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