@article{ref1,
title="The origins of terrorism: Cross-country estimates of socio-economic determinants of terrorism",
journal="European journal of political economy",
year="2011",
author="Freytag, Andreas and Krüger, Jens J. and Meierrieks, Daniel and Schneider, Friedrich",
volume="27",
number="Suppl 1",
pages="S5-S16",
abstract="Prior research has concluded that socio-economic development does not significantly affect terrorism. We take an alternative view. First, we note that a country's socio-economic circumstances affect terrorists' behavior through terrorism's opportunity costs. We argue that this reasoning also holds for the case of supreme value terrorism. Then, we run a series of negative binomial regressions for 110 countries between 1971 and 2007 to test the hypothesis that poor socio-economic development is conducive to terrorism. We find that socio-economic variables indeed matter to terrorism, contrary to other results. Our findings imply that countries can benefit from economic development and growth in terms of a reduction in terrorism.<p />",
language="",
issn="0176-2680",
doi="10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2011.06.009",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2011.06.009"
}