TY  - JOUR
AU  - Jaeger,David A.
AU  - Klor,Esteban F.
AU  - Miaari,Sami H.
AU  - Paserman,M. Daniele
TI  - The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13956
PY  - 2008
Y2  - April 2008
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13956
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13956.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
David Jaeger
Graduate Center
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Tel: 212 817 8261
E-Mail: djaeger@gc.cuny.edu

Esteban Klor
Dept. of Economics
Hebrew University
Mount Scopus
Jerusalem ISRAEL 91905
E-Mail: eklor@mscc.huji.ac.il

Sami H. Miaari
Department of Economics
University of Haifa
Mount Carmel
Haifa, 31905
Israel
E-Mail: smiaari@gmail.com

Daniele Paserman
Department of Economics
Boston University
270 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
Tel: 1-617-3535695
Fax: 1-617-3534449
E-Mail: paserman@bu.edu
AB  - his paper examines how violence in the Second Intifada influences Palestinian public opinion. Using micro data from a series of opinion polls linked to data on fatalities, we find that Israeli violence against Palestinians leads them to support more radical factions and more radical attitudes towards the conflict. This effect is temporary, however, and vanishes completely within 90 days. We also find some evidence that Palestinian fatalities lead to the polarization of the population and to increased disaffection and a lack of support for any faction. Geographically proximate Palestinian fatalities have a larger effect than those that are distant, while Palestinian fatalities in targeted killings have a smaller effect relative to other fatalities. Although overall Israeli fatalities do not seem to affect Palestinian public opinion, when we divide those fatalities by the different factions claiming responsibility for them, we find some evidence that increased Israeli fatalities are effective in increasing support for the faction that claimed them.
ER  -