A new study published in the February issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution, considers the impact of education and income on support for suicide bombings, spanning the geographic spectrum of Muslim-majority countries; in East Asia (Indonesia), South Asia (Pakistan), the Middle East (Lebanon and Jordan), Eurasia (Turkey), and North Africa (Morocco). Read the rest of this entry »
Research Highlight: New Study Examines Impact of Education and Income on Support for Suicide Bombings
April 6, 2010
An Excellent Example of Social Science Research: The Demographics of the Partition of India
April 17, 2009
A recent paper by Dr Asim Khwaja (Harvard) and Dr Atif Mian (U of Chicago), with graduate student Prashant Bharadwaj, is an excellent example of quantitative social science research on a locally relevant issue. Titled “The Big March: Migratory Flows After the Partition of India”, the paper analyzes archival records to answer questions about the volume of people who migrated to India or Pakistan at the time of the partition in 1947.
This is a controversial topic, to say the least. Estimates of those who died in the process vary significantly across sources, especially depending on the national or religious affiliations of the source. More importantly, there have hardly been any scientific studies of perhaps the most significant event in the history of the subcontinent.
