We investigate the effect of Islamist terrorist activity on women's economic, political and legal position in society … groups is associated with lower levels of women's empowerment and rights. Various instrumental-variable approaches yield the … same conclusion, suggesting that the adverse effect of Islamist terrorism on women' rights is causal. Further emphasizing …

engage "women's rights" - focusing on sexual suffering and victimization -- to frame interventions, attract media and …

negative impacts generated by these events. In particular there is limited understanding about the impact of crime on hosting … cities. Increased crime can be a long term impact that persists after the event. This paper investigates the relation, if any …, between the fact that an Italian city hosted the 1990 World Football Cup and its crime rates. Analysis aims at better …

"In this paper we evaluate what economists have learned over the past 40 years about the determinants of crime. We base … crime. Even hypotheses that find some support in U.S. data for recent decades are inconsistent with data over longer …