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Stopping Suicide Attacks : Optimal Strategies and Unintended Consequences

McBride, Michael - 2010

Governments fighting terrorists have many tactical options, yet these options often yield unintended and counterproductive consequences. This paper models a terrorist organization, a religious group from which the terrorists recruit suicide bombers, and the society in which the terrorists are...

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Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods : Testing the Club Model

Berman, Eli - 2008

clubs are more lethal and choose suicide terrorism more often, when they provide benign local public goods. Our results … suggest benign tactics to counter terrorism by religious radicals …

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Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War

Jones, Benjamin F. - 2007

Assassinations are a persistent feature of the political landscape. Using a new data set of assassination attempts on all world leaders from 1875 to 2004, we exploit inherent randomness in the success or failure of assassination attempts to identify assassination's effects. We find that, on...

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Climate Change, Insurability of Large-scale Disasters and the Emerging Liability Challenge

Kunreuther, Howard C. - 2007

This paper focuses on the interaction between uncertainty and insurability in the context of some of the risks associated with climate change. It discusses the evolution of insured losses due to weather-related disasters over the past decade, and the key drivers of the sharp increases in both...

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Poverty, Political Freedom, and the Roots of Terrorism

Abadie, Alberto - 2004

This article provides an empirical investigation of the determinants of terrorism at the country level. In contrast … with the previous literature on this subject, which focuses on transnational terrorism only, I use a new measure of … terrorism that encompasses both domestic and transnational terrorism. In line with the results of some recent studies, this …

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COVID-19 Time-varying Reproduction Numbers Worldwide : An Empirical Analysis of Mandatory and Voluntary Social Distancing

Chudik, Alexander; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Rebucci, Alessandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper estimates time-varying COVID-19 reproduction numbers worldwide solely based on the number of reported infected cases, allowing for under-reporting. Estimation is based on a moment condition that can be derived from an agent-based stochastic network model of COVID-19 transmission. The...

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The Female Happiness Paradox

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect equations, irrespective of the measure used - anxiety, depression, fearfulness, sadness, loneliness, anger - and they have more days with bad mental health and more restless...

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Global Pricing of Carbon-Transition Risk

Bolton, Patrick; Kacperczyk, Marcin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

levels of carbon emissions (and higher annual changes)--in all sectors over three continents, Asia, Europe, and North America …

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The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization : Evidence from an Historical Experiment

Nunn, Nathan - 2009

We exploit regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our results show that the introduction of the...

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Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond "Basic Needs"

Tella, Rafael Di - 2008

We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985-2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975-2002, shows different...

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