Sabri, Amir; Schulze, Günther G. - In: Public Choice 188 (2020) 1-2, pp. 155-181
We analyze the differences in the socioeconomic profiles between suicide terrorists and ‘regular’ militants using a dataset of 1596 militants (including 209 suicide terrorists) from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). We find that suicide terrorists are better educated, younger, less...