ABSTRACT

This paper studies the impact of education on domestic terrorism in Asian countries from 1970 to 2018. A control function approach is utilized to address the endogeneity of education on terrorism. Generally speaking, results show that education promotes domestic terrorism in Asia. Negative binomial regressions with and without control function are run for other parts of world to examine whether the patterns in Asia hold worldwide. Other important determinants of domestic terrorism in Asia include regime type, ethnic fractionalization, linguistic fractionalization, religious fractionalization, GDP per capita, and trade openness. This paper contributes to the literature by 1) applying a control function approach to control for possible endogeneity of education on terrorism, 2) analyzing exclusively Asia, a region where terrorism has been increasing rapidly over the last decade, (3) and focusing on domestic terrorism.

摘要

本文研究了 1970 年至 2018 年亚洲国家教育对国内恐怖主义的影响。利用控制函数方法来解决恐怖主义教育的内生性问题。总体而言，结果表明，教育促进了亚洲的国内恐怖主义。对世界其他地区进行带和不带控制函数的负二项式回归，以检查亚洲的模式是否适用于全球。亚洲国内恐怖主义的其他重要决定因素包括政权类型、种族分裂、语言分裂、宗教分裂、人均 GDP 和贸易开放。本文通过以下方式对文献做出贡献：1）应用控制函数方法来控制恐怖主义教育可能的内生性，2）仅分析亚洲，