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Transnational terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State group (also known as ISIS/ISIL or Daesh) have shown an ability to attract radicalized individuals from many countries to join their ranks. Using a novel data set that reports countries of residence and educational levels of a large sample of Daesh's foreign recruits, this paper finds that a lack of economic opportunities-measured by unemployment rates disaggregated by country and education level-explains foreign enrollment in the terrorist organization, especially for countries that are geographically closer to the Syrian Arab Republic.

Conflict and Development --- Extremism --- Fanatics --- Inclusion --- ISIL --- ISIS --- Radicalization --- Recruitment --- Social Development --- Social Protections and Labor --- Terrorism --- Unemployment --- Violence