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Matched cohort study designs appear often in medical research. These designs match nt exposed study subjects to nc unexposed subjects on one or more characteristics. The purpose of matching is to control measured and unmeasured confounding effects and to increase estimation prec…

This dissertation consists of three different papers in public economics and economics of terrorism. "Does Terrorism Have Economic Roots? " investigates the roots of international, domestic, and separatist terrorism using a new, extensive, multi-country panel data set obtained f…