On Terrorism and Electoral Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Abstract

as well as at the 4th International Conference on Public Economic Theory and the ASSA/AEA annual meetings in San Diego. Yaakov Garini provided invaluable help in the construction of the data set. The …rst author thanks the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University for their …nancial support. The second author thanks the W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy at the University of Rochester for its hospitality while working on this project. All views and remaining errors are solely our own.

On the Determinants of Terrorism Risk Concern in Europe

“…Pinning down the drivers of terrorism risk concern is important since the public"s terrorism risk concern (perception) is known to affect non-economic aspects of behavior (see Elster 1998;Schuster et al 2001;Berrebi and Klor 2006;Frey et al 2007), and also induce 3 indirect adverse economic effects via increasing fear and uncertainty (see Becker andRubinstein 2004, Christelis andGeorgarakos 2009). …”

Terrorism risk concern in Europe

“…Pinning down the drivers of terrorism concern is important since it is known to affect various economic and non-economic aspects of behavior (Elster 1998;Schuster et al 2001;Becker and Rubinstein 2004;Berrebi and Klor 2006;Frey et al 2007). …”

The labor market costs of conflict: closures, foreign workers, and Palestinian employment and earnings

“…Exploiting the panel aspect of the PLFS and using the number of foreign workers permits Laitin (2005), Berrebi and Klor (2005), and Jaeger and Paserman (2005). The estimated employment and earnings effects of temporary closures and foreign workers suggest that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict leads to substantially worse labor market outcomes for Palestinians both in the short-run and in the long-run.…”