Citation

Farzanegan MR, Krieger T, Meierrieks D. Appl. Econ. Lett. 2017; 24(13): 893-896.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/13504851.2016.1240329

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

We study the effect of terrorism on life satisfaction for a sample of 81 countries over the 1994-2009 period. We find that terrorism is robustly associated with less life satisfaction. This effect, however, translates into only modest social costs.

Language: en

Keywords

cost-benefit analysis; D61; D74; I31; life satisfaction; Terrorism