Estimating Long-Term Impacts of Wartime Schooling Disruptions on Private Returns to Schooling in Kuwait

Simon Bilo (), Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad, Ebtesam AlAnsari, Lama AlHumaidan and Faleh AlRashidi
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Simon Bilo: World Bank
Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad: World Bank
Ebtesam AlAnsari: Public Authority for Applied Education and Training
Lama AlHumaidan: Public Authority for Applied Education and Training
Faleh AlRashidi: Public Authority for Applied Education and Training

Journal of Labor Research, 2024, vol. 45, issue 1, No 4, 152 pages

Abstract: Abstract This paper estimates the long-term impacts of schooling disruptions on private returns to schooling in Kuwait. It applies an instrumental variables approach to estimate the private returns to schooling, using unique civil service payroll data, with Kuwaiti students’ exposure to the Gulf War (1990–91) as the instrument. The Gulf War is a suitable instrument because it profoundly affected Kuwaiti students' schooling at the time and is unlikely to be correlated with many potentially problematic omitted variables, such as students’ ability. The analysis finds that (i) people who were of schooling age during the Gulf War tend to have lower educational attainment than people who were of schooling age after the Gulf War; (ii) men who were of schooling age at the time of the Gulf War earn on average 5.6% less for each year of schooling lost, and women earn correspondingly 6.8% less for each year of schooling lost; (iii) female students who were in the age groups corresponding to lower school grades during the Gulf War tend to suffer a greater percentage wage loss for each year of lost schooling.

Keywords: Gulf War; Kuwait; Private returns to schooling; Civil servants’ wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J31 J45 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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