Learning the Hard Way: The Effect of Violent Conflict on Student Academic Achievement

Tilman Brück, Michele Di Maio and Sami Miaari ()

No 8543, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We study the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the probability to pass the final high-school exam for Palestinian students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). By exploiting within-school variation in the number of conflict-related Palestinian fatalities during the academic year, we show that the conflict reduces the probability to pass the final exam and to be admitted to the university. We also provide evidence of the heterogeneous effects of the conflict in terms of ability of the student and type of violent event the student is exposed to. Finally, we discuss possible transmission mechanisms explaining our main result.

Keywords: Palestine; violent conflict; Second Intifada; high-school; academic achievement; fatalities; West Bank; Israel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F51 I20 O12 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2014-10
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Published - published in: Journal of the European Economic Association , 2019, 17 (5), 1502 - 1037

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Journal Article: Learning The Hard Way: The Effect of Violent Conflict on Student Academic Achievement (2019)
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