id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_4qos2sp4cbfvrjzsxsdhfnc7bi Yener Altunbas Are Homegrown Islamic Terrorists Different? Some UK Evidence 2011 16 .pdf application/pdf 1798 329 79 education as drivers of terrorist supply • Reflects results from survey-based and econometric studies of terrorism o Uses a new dataset comparing UK Islamic terrorists with UK Muslims Empirical Evidence on the Drivers of Terrorism terrorists not typically characterized by lack of education and poverty Data on UK Homegrown Islamic Terrorists o Compare key characteristics of homegrown UK Islamic terrorists to those of • Terrorist sample: Muslims convicted in the UK for terrorist acts, or who died o We find 77 convicted Muslim terrorists with partial information on education, • Sample of UK Muslims (non-terrorists): Annual British Crime Survey (BCS) Notes: Sample size is 1,440 UK Muslims, of which 77 were convicted homegrown homegrown Islamic terrorists versus those of all UK Muslims. Educational attainment of homegrown Islamic terrorists Probit estimates for the likelihood of being a homegrown Islamic UK terrorist of education to the terrorists for whom there are missing values. ./cache/work_4qos2sp4cbfvrjzsxsdhfnc7bi.pdf ./txt/work_4qos2sp4cbfvrjzsxsdhfnc7bi.txt