Together or separate? Post-conflict partition, ethnic homogenization, and the provision of public schooling

Eik Swee

Journal of Public Economics, 2015, vol. 128, issue C, 1-15

Abstract: The partitioning of political jurisdictions is becoming an increasingly common component of agreements to end ethnic conflict, although its impact on post-conflict recovery remains unclear. This paper studies the effects of the partition which ended the 1992–1995 Bosnian War on the post-war provision of public schooling. I find that partitioned municipalities provide 58% more primary schools and 37% more teachers (per capita). Driven mainly by convergent preferences for ethnically oriented schools, however, this arrangement delivers distributional consequences: in partitioned municipalities, ethnic majority children are more likely to complete primary schooling, while for ethnic minority children it is the opposite.

Keywords: Ethnic homogenization; Partition; Conflict; Public schooling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2015.05.007

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