Economic conditions and the quality of suicide terrorism
By: Efraim Benmelech, Claude Berrebi, Esteban F. Klor
Contributors: Berrebi, Claude, 1970-; Klor, Esteban F.; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16320; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16320.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: "We analyze the link between economic conditions and the quality of suicide terrorism.  While the existing empirical literature shows that poverty and economic conditions are not correlated with the quantity of terror, theory predicts that poverty and poor economic conditions may affect the quality of terror.  Poor economic conditions may lead more able, better-educated individuals to participate in terror attacks, allowing terror organizations to send better-qualified terrorists to more complex, higher-impact, terror missions.  Using the universe of Palestinian suicide terrorists against Israeli targets between the years 2000 and 2006 we provide evidence on the correlation between economic conditions, the characteristics of suicide terrorists and the targets they attack.  High levels of unemployment enable terror organizations to recruit more educated, mature and experienced suicide terrorists who in turn attack more important Israeli targets"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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