Document de travail
Why Suicide-Terrorists Get Educated, and What to Do About It
Jean-Paul Azam
IDEI Working Paper
n° 627, décembre 2010
Référence
Jean-Paul Azam, « Why Suicide-Terrorists Get Educated, and What to Do About It », IDEI Working Paper, n° 627, décembre 2010.
Résumé
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.
Mots-clés
Terrorisme – Education – Développement;