- Title
- What Makes a Homegrown Terrorist? Human Capital and Participation in Domestic Islamic Terrorist Groups in the U.S.A.
- Author(s)
- Alan B. Krueger Alan Krueger (Princeton University and NBER)
- Abstract
- This paper compares the characteristics of 63 alleged homegrown Islamic terrorists in the U.S.A. to a representative sample of 1,000+ Muslim Americans. The alleged terrorists have about average level of education. Those with higher education were judged closer to succeeding.
- Creation Date
- 2008-09
- Section URL ID
- IRS
- Paper Number
- 533
- URL
- https://dataspace.princeton.edu/bitstream/88435/dsp012f75r8023/1/533.pdf
- File Function
- Jel
- H56, J24
- Keyword(s)
- terrorism; homegrown terrorism; human capital
- Suppress
- false
- Series
- 1