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- Title
Why suicide-terrorists get educated, and what to do about it.
- Authors
Azam, Jean-Paul
- Abstract
This paper tries to reconcile the observed fact that suicide-terrorists have a relatively high education level with rationality. It brings out the conditions under which potential students choose to acquire some education in a rational-choice model where this yields a non-zero probability of blowing up the resulting human capital in a terrorist attack. The comparative-statics of the rational expectations equilibrium of this model demonstrate how economic development, on the one hand, and repression, on the other hand, might reduce terrorism under some parameter restrictions.
- Subjects
SUICIDE terrorism; TERRORISTS -- Psychology; REASON; EDUCATIONAL attainment; SOCIAL pressure; CHOICE (Psychology)
- Publication
Public Choice, 2012, Vol 153, Issue 3/4, p357
- ISSN
0048-5829
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11127-011-9798-7