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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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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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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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Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? An empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009

Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while...

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Israel, the Palestinian factions, and the cycle of violence

Jaeger, David A.; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2006

In this study we extend our previous work to examine the dynamic relationship between violence committed by Palestinian factions and that committed by Israel during the Second Intifada. We find a statistically significant relationship between Israeli fatalities claimed by groups associated with...

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The cycle of violence? An empirical analysis of fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Jaeger, David A.; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2005

This paper studies the dynamics of violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since the outbreak of the Second (or Al-Aqsa) Intifada in September 2000, during which more than 3,300 Palestinians and more than 1,000 Israelis have been killed. The conflict has followed an uneven pattern, with...

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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel: Effects of religiosity, ethnicity, and war

van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Romanov, Dmitri; … - 2010

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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Money Can't Buy Love But Can It Buy Peace? Evidence from the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation

Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T. N. - 2014

In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement concluded a period of violence in Northern Ireland yet the scars of the conflict remained prevalent in the political landscape. Rival communities remained divided, economic performance was poor and intercommunity tensions frequently manifested. In a bid to...

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