Who chooses suicide attacks? Though rebels typically target poor countries, suicide attacks are just as likely to … target rich democracies. Though many groups have grievances, suicide attacks are favored by the radical religious. Though … rebels often kill coreligionists, they seldom use suicide attacks to do so. We model the choice of tactics by rebels, bearing …

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

This paper examines whether house demolitions are an effective counterterrorism tactic against suicide terrorism. We … suicide attacks against Israeli targets. By exploiting spatial and time variation in house demolitions and suicide terror … attacks during the second Palestinian uprising, we show that punitive house demolitions (those targeting Palestinian suicide …

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 …, higher-impact, terror missions. Using the universe of Palestinian suicide terrorists against Israeli targets between the …

Suicide rates among youths aged 15-24 have tripled in the past half-century, even as rates for adults and the elderly … have declined. And for every youth suicide completion, there are nearly 400 suicide attempts. This paper examines the … dynamics of youth suicide attempts and completions, and reaches three conclusions. First, we suggest that many suicide attempts …

This paper analyzes the normative role for civil liability in aligning terrorism precaution incentives, when the … perpetrators of terrorism are unreachable by courts or regulators. We consider the strategic interaction among targets, subsidiary … targets of terrorism, coupled with direct compensation to victims of terrorist attacks …

This paper investigates the rationale for government intervention in the market for terrorism insurance, focusing on …

detrimental effect on veterans' mental health leading to suicide in extreme cases. In addition, because rural veterans have much … raised the veteran suicide rate relative to the non-veteran ("civilian") rate with rural veterans suffering the lion's share … of the increase. We estimate that OSI raised the rural veteran suicide rate by a little over one-third between 2013 and …

questioning. In addition, ABLs are associated with a 13-16 percent reduction in the suicide rate of female 14- through 18-year …

prevalence. Cerqueira et al. (2108) exploit the socioeconomic characteristics of suicide victims in order to develop a new and … model for the likelihood of committing suicide with gun. We empirically assess this new indicator using gun ownership data … from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and suicide registers of the US National Center for Health …