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 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 educational attainment of children as measured by grade point averages. We find that non-cognitive rather than cognitive skills are the channels through which exposure affects children’s educational achievement.
Juerges, H., Stella, L., Hallaq, S., Schwarz, A., Cohort at Risk: Long-Term Consequences of Conflict for Child School Achievement, <<JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS>>, 2022; 35 (1): 1-43. [doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-020-00790-6] [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/272583]
Cohort at Risk: Long-Term Consequences of Conflict for Child School Achievement
Stella, Luca;
2022
Abstract
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 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 educational attainment of children as measured by grade point averages. We find that non-cognitive rather than cognitive skills are the channels through which exposure affects children’s educational achievement.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.