The paper investigates whether there is a causal link between poverty or low education and participation in politically motivated violence and terrorist activities. After presenting a discussion of theoretical issues, we review evidence on the determinants of hate crimes. This literature finds...

The paper investigates whether there is a causal link between poverty or low education and participation in politically motivated violence and terrorist activities. After presenting a discussion of theoretical issues, we review evidence on the determinants of hate crimes. This literature finds...

This paper tests a central implication of the theory of equalizing differences, that workers sortinto jobs with different attributes based on their preferences for those attributes. We presentevidence from four new time-use data sets for the United States and France on whetherworkers who are...