@article {4797,
	title = {The Impact of the Economic Costs of Conflict on Individuals{\textquoteright} Political Attitudes},
	journal = {Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy},
	volume = {18},
	number = {2},
	year = {2012},
	note = {Special issue on "Political Economy Studies of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict."},
	pages = {Article 4},
	abstract = {A large number of studies show that war and terrorism have a significant effect on individuals{\textquoteright} political attitudes.\&nbsp; Yet, this extensive literature does not inspect the mechanisms behind this effect.\&nbsp; This paper concentrates on one possible mechanism, by differentiating between the human toll of terror and war and the economic costs they cause. \&nbsp;For these purposes we focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and use variation in the level of violence across time and space together with localities{\textquoteright} different exposure to the tourism sector to estimate their respective effects on political attitudes.\&nbsp; Our results suggest that whereas fatalities from the conflict make Israelis more willing to grant territorial concessions to the Palestinians, the associated economic costs of conflict do not have a consistent significant effect on individuals{\textquoteright} political attitudes.\&nbsp;},
	author = {Avi Ben-Bassat and Momi Dahan and Esteban F. Klor}
}
