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Gender bias in education during conflict : cvidence from Assam

Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016

violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to … an alternative definition of conflict from a different dataset. Gender differential responses are more negative for lower …

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Obstacles on the road to school: the impacts of mobility restrictions on educational performance

Miaari, Sami H.; Lee, Ines - 2020

-2006 during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This conflict is characterized by a system of mobility restrictions enforced through …

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First and second generation impacts of the biafran war

Akresh, Richard; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Leone, Marinella; … - 2017

We analyze long-term impacts of the 1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War, providing the first evidence of intergenerational impacts. Women exposed to the war in their growing years exhibit reduced adult stature, increased likelihood of being overweight, earlier age at first birth, and lower educational...

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The heterogeneous effects of conflict on education : a spatial analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa

Unfried, Kerstin; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2020

attainment of children in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. By combining 66 rounds of DHS surveys with geo-coded conflict information …, our study contextualizes the findings of a series of country-specific case studies on the effects of conflict on education … dynamics in education. The effects of conflict on education are strongly context dependent. High-intensity conflicts reduce …

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Instrumenting the effect of terrorism on education in Kenya

Alfano, Marco; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2023

This paper estimates the effect of exposure to terrorist violence on education. Since terrorists may choose targets endogenously, we construct a set of novel instruments. To that end, we leverage exogenous variation from a local terrorist group's revenues and its affiliation with al-Qaeda....

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Cohort at risk : long-term consequences of conflict for child school achievement

Jürges, Hendrik; Stella, Luca; Hallaq, Sameh; Schwarz, … - 2017

We investigate the long-term effects of households' exposure to violent conflict on children's educational attainment … exploits the locality-level variation in the intensity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West Bank during the Second … Intifada (2000–2005). We show that an increase in family experience of conflict has large negative long-term effects on the …

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006

This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.

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Determinants of integration and its impact on the economic success of immigrants : a case study of the Turkish community in Berlin

Danzer, Alexander M. (contributor); Ulku, Hulya (contributor) - 2008

Using a new data on 590 Turkish households in Berlin, we investigate the determinants and impact of integration on economic performance. We find that usual suspects such as time spent in Germany and education have positive impact, while networks have no impact on integration. There is strong...

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The economic situation of first- and second-generation immigrants in France, Germany, and the UK

Algan, Yann; Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; … - 2009

A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK have all become, perhaps unwittingly, countries with...

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