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Why Suicide-Terrorists Get Educated, and What to Do About It

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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.

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hal-04411555 , version 1 (23-01-2024)

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Jean-Paul Azam. Why Suicide-Terrorists Get Educated, and What to Do About It. Public Choice, 2012, 153 (3-4), pp.357-373. ⟨10.1007/s11127-011-9798-7⟩. ⟨hal-04411555⟩
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