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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w16493 |
来源ID | Working Paper 16493 |
Counter-Suicide-Terrorism: Evidence from House Demolitions | |
Efraim Benmelech; Claude Berrebi; Esteban Klor | |
发表日期 | 2010-10-28 |
出版年 | 2010 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | This paper examines whether house demolitions are an effective counterterrorism tactic against suicide terrorism. We link original longitudinal micro-level data on houses demolished by the Israeli Defense Forces with data on the universe of suicide attacks against Israeli targets. By exploiting spatial and time variation in house demolitions and suicide terror attacks during the second Palestinian uprising, we show that punitive house demolitions (those targeting Palestinian suicide terrorists and terror operatives) cause an immediate, significant decrease in the number of suicide attacks. The effect dissipates over time and by geographic distance. In contrast, we observe that precautionary house demolitions (demolitions justified by the location of the house but not related to the identity or any action of the house's owner) cause a significant increase in the number of suicide terror attacks. The results are consistent with the view that selective violence is an effective tool to combat terrorist groups, whereas indiscriminate violence backfires. |
主题 | Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Other ; Law and Economics ; Development and Growth ; Country Studies |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16493 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574167 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Efraim Benmelech,Claude Berrebi,Esteban Klor. Counter-Suicide-Terrorism: Evidence from House Demolitions. 2010. |
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