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Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism

Gang, Ira N.; Epstein, Gil S. - 2004

We use economic theory to examine the intensity of fundamentalist sects. Leaders work to enhance their followers? observance level. We model three stylized situations under which fundamentalist groups function, examining the intensity of observance in each. We find that, under reasonable...

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Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism

Gang, Ira N.; Epstein, Gil S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We use economic theory to examine the intensity of fundamentalist sects. Leaders work to enhance their followers’ observance level. We model three stylized situations under which fundamentalist groups function, examining the intensity of observance in each. We find that, under reasonable...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822598

Economic Crises and Mortality Among the Elderly: Evidence from Two Russian Crises

Khvan, Margarita; Smorodenkova, Elizaveta; Yakovlev, Evgeny - 2020

We assess the short-term effects of the two recent economic crises, the Great Recession and the collapse of the USSR …, on the elderly mortality in Russia. According to our study, crises have led to an increase in mortality with …

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Impact of the 2008 - 2009 food, fuel, and financial crisis on the Philippine labor market

van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana; Menon, Nidhiya - 2011

This study examines how the 2008-2009 surges in international food and fuel prices and coinciding global financial crisis impacted the Philippine labor market, with a focus on gendered outcomes. A battery of descriptive statistics and probit regressions based on repeated cross sections of the...

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Impact of the 2008-2009 Food, Fuel, and Financial Crisis on the Philippine Labor Market

van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana; Menon, Nidhiya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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Do More Tourists Promote Local Employment?

González, Libertad; Surovtseva, Tetyana - 2024

We analyze the impact of tourist flows on local labor markets, following a novel identification strategy that uses temporary shocks in alternative international destinations to instrument for tourism flows across Spanish regions. We find that a one standard deviation increase in tourist inflows...

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Terrorism, Media Coverage and Education: Evidence from Al-Shabaab Attacks in Kenya

Alfano, Marco; Goerlach, Joseph-Simon - 2022

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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Terrorism and Integration of Muslim Immigrants

Elsayed, Ahmed; de Grip, Andries - 2013

terrorism has a particularly negative impact on the integration of the highly educated, employed, and less religious Muslims …

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Who Is the Enemy?

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004

We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve the same people in common cause against a common enemy. The groups compete for rents obtained from the public by...

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International terrorism, political instability and the escalation effect

Campos, Nauro F.; Gassebner, Martin - 2009

What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9 … (the escalation effect) stressing domestic political instability as the main reason for international terrorism …

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