Do Working Men Rebel? Insurgency and Unemployment in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Philippines

By Eli Berman, Michael Callen, Joseph H. Felter, Jacob N. Shapiro. 2011

247 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/a2d6e7818dd244cd8a1005307ad384aae35da3a7

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In Political Science and International Relations

1. Jeannie Annan
2. Christopher Blattman
3. Eli Berman

In Sociology and Political Science

1. L. Heger
2. Christopher Blattman
3. Joseph H. Felter
4. Jacob N. Shapiro
5. Jeannie Annan
6. Eli Berman
7. Richard Sosis
8. David D. Laitin

Citations in the corpus

• Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq (2011, background): “Subsequent research casts doubt on opportunity costs as a general mechanism (Bazzi and Blattman 2011; Berman et al. 2011).”
• Votes and violence (2015, background): “Berman et al. (2011) discuss how a bad economy may lead more community members to share information damaging to insurgents, particularly in the face of economic incentives.”
• Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State (2016, background): “Not all criminal activities crowd out work hours, and insurgent groups might not be labor constrained (Berman et al. 2011).”
• Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies (2018, unknown): “34See i.e. Berman et al. (2011a); Miguel et al. (2004).”