The Economic Cost of Harboring Terrorism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6284755 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Efraim Benmelech (Harvard University), Claude Berrebi (0000-0002-1350-5062, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA), Esteban F Klor (0000-0002-6756-0825, Department of Economics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 331-353 |
| Publication date | 2010-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022002709355922 |
| OpenAlex | W2111655825 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 16 |
The literature on conflict and terrorism has paid little attention to the economic costs of terrorism for the perpetrators. This article aims to fill that gap by examining the economic costs of harboring suicide terror attacks. Using data covering the universe of Palestinian suicide terrorists during the second Palestinian uprising, combined with data from the Palestinian Labor Force Survey, the authors identify and quantify the impact of a successful attack on unemployment and wages. They find robust evidence that terror attacks have important economic costs. The results suggest that a successful attack causes an increase of 5.3 percent in unemployment, increases the likelihood that the district’s average wages fall in the quarter following an attack by more than 20.0 percent, and reduces the number of Palestinians working in Israel by 6.7 percent relative to its mean. Importantly, these effects are persistent and last for at least six months after the attack
Criminology · Demographic economics · Economic cost · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Political science · Quarter (Canadian coin · Survey data collection · Terrorism · Unemployment · Violent crime · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
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Home market power and host market protection of foreign investment
Public sentiment in times of terror
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Rebel Institutionalization, Religious Holidays, and Political Violence
Economic Conditions and the Quality of Suicide Terrorism
Counter-Suicide-Terrorism
When Deterrence Backfires
Negative Reciprocity in an Environment of Violent Conflict
Terrorism and Policy
Nowhere to Go
Can Militants Use Violence to Win Public Support? Evidence from the Second Intifada
Terrorism and Voting
Macroeconomic consequences of terror
Kto Kogo?
Sect, Subsidy, and Sacrifice
The Political Economy of Terrorism
Terrorism and the world economy
Poverty, Political Freedom, and the Roots of Terrorism
Causality between transnational terrorism and tourism
Economic and security consequences of supreme values
Too Much of a Good Thing
The Propaganda of the Deed
The Economic Costs of Conflict
Human Capital and the Productivity of Suicide Bombers
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,81 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2024 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |