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Learning the Hard Way : The Effect of Violent Conflict on Student Academic Achievement
Brück, Tilman - 2014
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...
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Armed Conflict and Schooling : Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
Akresh, Richard; de Walque, Damien - 2021
To examine the impact of Rwanda's 1994 genocide on children's schooling, the authors combine two cross-sectional household surveys collected before and after the genocide. The identification strategy uses pre-war data to control for an age group's baseline schooling and exploits variation across...
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Surviving the Genocide : The Impact of the Rwandan Genocide on Child Mortality
Ciani, Federico - 2013
Between April and July 1994 Rwanda experienced a tremendous wave of inter-ethnic violence that caused at least 500,000 deaths. Combining birth history data drawn from the 2000 Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey with prefecture-level information on the intensity of the conflict, we examine the...
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Cohort at Risk : Long-Term Consequences of Conflict for Child School Achievement
Jürges, Hendrik - 2017
We investigate the long-term effects of households' exposure to violent conflict on children's educational attainment in primary school, studying cognitive and non-cognitive skills as possible causal channels. Our identification strategy exploits the locality-level variation in the intensity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947722
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Market Distortions and Political Rent : The Case of Fertilizer Price Divergence in Africa
Shimeles, Abebe - 2015
We examine the fertilizer retail-import price gap in 14 African countries between 2002 and 2013. This price differential is large and remains persistent even after accounting for changes in the cost of domestic transportation. We hypothesize that these persistent deviations may be indicative of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023749
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Can Educational Expansion Improve Income Inequality in China? Evidences from the Chns 1997 and 2006 Data
Ning, Guangjie - 2010
Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the … labor market and work less time; all of these will have a pronounced impact on earning and income inequality. Quantile … reforming the education system and establishing a competitive labor market helps less in reducing income inequality …
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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011
Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...
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Do the Maths : An Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics in Africa
Dickerson, Andrew P. - 2013
fertility and GDP nor to gender inequality as measured by the Gender Gap Index …
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Public Infrastructure, Location of Private Schools and Primary School Attainment in an Emerging Economy
Pal, Sarmistha - 2009
The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a high return to private investment. Results using community, school and child/household-level PROBE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153509
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Could Education Promote the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process?
El-Attar, Mayssun - 2009
This paper explores Palestinians' attitudes towards a peace process and their determinants, with a particular focus on the role of education. Understanding the factors that shape attitudes towards peace is important in order to be successful in negotiations or in implementing a peace agreement....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155547