WHAT MAKES A TERRORIST: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism

By J. Ridgeway. 2008

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Foreign Aid Versus Military Intervention in the War on Terror (2010, background): “Krueger (2007) expressed serious doubts about the role of aid for curbing terrorism.”
Generating Employment in Poor and Fragile States: Evidence from Labor Market and Entrepreneurship Programs (2015, background): “111 111Krueger and Maleckova (2003); Krueger (2008) review the theory and evidence, much of it from scattered data on civilian supporters of, or participants in, Middle Eastern terror groups such as Hezbollah or Hamas.”
CORRELATES OF VIOLENT POLITICAL EXTREMISM IN THE UNITED STATES (2018, result): “The results of other research (Berrebi, 2007; Krueger, 2007; Krueger and Malečková, 2003; Pape, 2005; Piazza, 2006; Silke, 2008) show that those who participate in terrorist actions are frequently not the poorest members of their societies.”
On the origin of domestic and international terrorism (2011, result): “Our result is in line with Lai (2007) and Blomberg and Hess (2008a), but contradicts Krueger and Malečkova (2003), Krueger and Latin (2008) and Kurrild‐Klitgaard et al. (2006).”
Destruction and Distress: Using a Quasi-Experiment to Show the Effects of the September 11 Attacks on Mental Well-Being in the United Kingdom (2011, background): “In a small sample from Wisconsin, Krueger (2007) found that 9/11 increased sadness temporarily and decreased enthusiasm for at least seven days after the attacks.”