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Learning the hard way: the effect of violent conflict on student academic achievement
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We study the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on various education outcomes for Palestinian high school students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). Exploiting within-school variation in the number of conflict-related Palestinian fatalities during the academic year, we show that the conflict reduces the probability of passing the final exam, the total test score, and the probability of being admitted to university. The effect of conflict varies with the type and...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of the European Economic Association Journal website
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 1502–1537
- Publication date:
- 2019-01-19
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-05-31
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- EISSN:
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1542-4774
- ISSN:
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1542-4766
- Source identifiers:
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944855
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- pubs:944855
- Deposit date:
- 2018-11-23
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- Copyright holder:
- Brück et al
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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- © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of European Economic Association. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited.
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