What makes a homegrown terrorist? Human capital and participation in domestic Islamic terrorist groups in the U.S.A.

Economics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 293-296

  Krueger, Alan B ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homegrown terrorism; Human capital; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 55649096632     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

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