Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/288913 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Citation: 
[Journal:] Public Choice [ISSN:] 1573-7101 [Volume:] 188 [Issue:] 1-2 [Publisher:] Springer US [Place:] New York, NY [Year:] 2020 [Pages:] 155-181
Publisher: 
Springer US, New York, NY
Abstract: 
We analyze the differences in the socioeconomic profiles between suicide terrorists and ‘regular’ militants using a dataset of 1596 militants (including 209 suicide terrorists) from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). We find that suicide terrorists are better educated, younger, less likely to be married or have children, and less likely to live in the Gaza strip than their non-suicide counterparts. Moreover, although the profiles of Hamas and PIJ militants are distinctively different, the suicide terrorists are very similar to one another.
Subjects: 
Suicide terrorism
Terrorism
Hamas
Palestinian Islamic Jihad
JEL: 
D74
J49
Z12
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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