What Makes a Homegrown Terrorist? Human Capital and Participation in Domestic Islamic Terrorist Groups in the U.S.A

Alan B. Krueger ()

No 1094, Working Papers from Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section.

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.

Keywords: terrorism; homegrown terrorism; human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H56 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008-08

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