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Targets: Theory and Evidence on Suicide Attacks" (NBER Working Paper No. 11740)

Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan and NBER, and Naomi Feldman, Ben-Gurion University, "War, Social

Identity, and Taxation: Capitalizing Patriotism Through Voluntary Tax Compliance"

Eugene N. White, Rutgers University and NBER; Kim Oosterlinck, Free University of Brussels; and Filippo Occhino, Rutgers University, "How Occupied France Financed Its Own Exploitation in World War II"

Raymond Fisman, Harvard University and NBER; David Fisman, Princeton University; and Rakesh Khurana and Julia Galef, Harvard University, "Estimating the Value of Connections to Vice-President Cheney"

Alexander Gelber, Harvard University, "Military Enlistments: A Study of Compensating Differentials and Labor Supply"

Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, and John Bellows, University of California, Berkeley, "War and Institutions in Sierra Leone"

Nell F. Johnson, Oxford University; and Michael Spagat, University of London; Jorge Restrepo, Universidad Javeriana; Oscar Becerra and Nicolas Suarez, Conflict Analysis Resource Center, Bogota, Colombia; Juan Camilo Bohorquez, Elvira Maria Restrepo, and Roberto Zarama, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia; "Universal Patterns Underlying Ongoing Wars and Terrorism"

James Dertouzos, RAND Corporation, "Recruiter Missioning, Market Quality, Recruiter Effort, and Enlistment"

David Loughran, RAND Corporation, "Earnings Loss of Activated Reservists"

James Hosek, RAND Corporation, "Analysis of Reserve Retirement Reform"

John T. Warner and Curtis J. Simon, Clemson University, "Uncertainty about Job Match Quality and Youth

Turnover: Evidence From U.S. Military Attrition"

Claude Berrebi, RAND Corporation, and Esteban F. Klor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "The Impact of Terrorism Across Industries: An Empirical Study"

Darius Lakdawalla, RAND Corporation and NBER, and Eric Talley, RAND Corporation, "Optimal Liability for Terrorism"

Berman and Laitin model the choice of tactics by rebels, bearing in mind that a successful suicide attack imposes the ultimate cost on the attacker and the organization. They first ask what a suicide attacker would have to believe to be deemed rational. They then embed the attacker and other operatives in a club-good model that emphasizes...

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