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Learning The Hard Way: The Effect of Violent Conflict on Student Academic Achievement

Author(s) -

Tilman Brück,

Michele Di Maio,

Sami H. Miaari

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

journal of the european economic association

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.792

H-Index - 93

eISSN - 1542-4774

pISSN - 1542-4766

DOI - 10.1093/jeea/jvy051

Subject(s) - test (biology) , psychology , variation (astronomy) , student achievement , social psychology , academic achievement , demographic economics , mathematics education , economics , paleontology , physics , astrophysics , biology

We study the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the probability to pass the final high-school exam for Palestinian students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). By exploiting within school variation in the number of conflict-related Palestinian fatalities during the academic year, we show that the conflict reduces the probability to pass the final exam and to be admitted to the university. We also provide evidence of the heterogeneous effects of the conflict in terms of ability of the student and type of violent event the student is exposed to. Finally, we discuss possible transmission mechanisms explaining our main result.

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