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We examine how terrorism alters the demand for education through perceived risks and returns by relating terrorist … coverage and attacks, we establish that media access reinforces negative effects of terrorism on schooling. These effects are …. Based on these insights, we estimate a simple structural model where heterogeneous households experiencing terrorism form …
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To better understand potential relationships between income and terrorism, we study data for 1,527 subnational regions … alternative specifications. The threat of terrorism systematically rises as low-income polities become richer, peaking at an … pattern emerges for domestic and transnational terrorism alike. Peaks in the income-terrorism relationship differ by …
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This paper examines the impact of terrorism on voting behavior in the United States. We rely on an exhaustive list of … identify the political impacts of terrorism. We first confirm that the success of terror attacks is plausibly random by showing … terrorism has less of an influence on voters than is usually thought …
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In this paper we investigate whether the effects of terrorism in one country spillover to affect trade in neighboring … stock measures of terrorism, and even for terrorist incidents with zero casualties. Spillovers from terrorism are relatively … long-lived, depressing bilateral trade up to five years after a terrorist event. Our findings are consistent with terrorism …
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To address security concerns, governments often implement trade barriers and restrictions on the movement of goods and people. These restrictions have negative economic consequences, possibly increasing the supply of political violence. To test this hypothesis, we exploit the restrictions...
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Terror has become a global issue. Terror acts perpetuated by religious, nationalist or political groups around the globe can propagate distress rapidly through different channels and possibly change political attitudes. This paper suggests the first evaluation of the impact of global terror on...
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disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues …
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We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...
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Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...
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The existing literature on the determinants of terrorism treats terror as a uniform phenomenon and does not distinguish … terror. We analyze determinants of domestic and international terrorism, for target and origin using the Global Terrorism …
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