Child School Enrollment Decisions, Perceptions and Experiences of Conflict in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh

Badiuzzaman Muhammad and Murshed Syed Mansoob ()
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Badiuzzaman Muhammad: International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague, The Netherlands
Murshed Syed Mansoob: Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting, Coventry University, UK

Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy, 2014, vol. 20, issue 4, 575-583

Abstract: We analyze rural household children’s school enrollment decisions in a post-conflict setting in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh. The innovation of the paper lies in the fact that we employ information about current subjective perceptions regarding the possibility of violence in the future and past actual experiences of violence to explain household economic decision-making. Preferences are endogenous in line with behavioral economics. Regression results show that heightened subjective perceptions of future violence and past actual experiences of conflict can increase child enrollment.

Keywords: Perceptions of violence; conflict; enrollment; livelihood decision making (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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