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Usually, studies analyzing terrorism focus on the total number of casualties or attacks in a given county. However, per … capita rates of terrorism are more likely to matter for individual welfare. Analyzing 214 countries from 1970 - 2014, we show … terror per capita. Democracy, previously associated with more casualties, emerges as a marginally negative predictor of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602738
Usually, studies analyzing terrorism focus on the total number of casualties or attacks in a given county. However, per … capita rates of terrorism are more likely to matter for individual welfare. Analyzing 214 countries from 1970-2014, we show … terror per capita. Democracy, previously associated with more casualties, emerges as a marginally negative predictor of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168478
Usually, studies analyzing terrorism focus on the total number of casualties or attacks in a given county. However, per … capita rates of terrorism are more likely to matter for individual welfare. Analyzing 214 countries from 1970-2014, we show … terror per capita. Democracy, previously associated with more casualties, emerges as a marginally negative predictor of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961945
This contribution studies the influence of poor politico-economic factors, unfavorable demographic conditions, state failure, modernization, secularization, globalization and the perceived dependency of the Islamic world from the West on the onset of armed Islamist activity for 155 countries...
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This study examines the effect of religiosity on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan … countries. We argue that this effect partly operates through a decrease in public support for terrorism, which in turn reduces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926056
This study examines the effect of religiosity on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan … countries. We argue that this effect partly operates through a decrease in public support for terrorism, which in turn reduces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892037
We investigate empirically whether political institutions or culture and religion underlie gender inequality in education. The dataset contains up to 157 countries over the 1991-2006 period. The results indicate that political institutions do not significantly influence education of girls:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008673505
We analyze the differences in the socioeconomic profiles between suicide terrorists and ‘regular’ militants using a dataset of 1596 militants (including 209 suicide terrorists) from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). We find that suicide terrorists are better educated, younger, less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014503735
This study examines the effect of religiosity on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan … countries. We argue that this effect partly operates through a decrease in public support for terrorism, which in turn reduces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932063
Many experts claim that the incidence of suicide attacks is driven by religious cleavages. To test this hypothesis, we investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country is associated with simmering religious...
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