TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Maio, Michele Di
AU  - Nistico, Roberto
        TI  - The Effect of Parental Job Loss on Child School Dropout: Evidence from the Occupied Palestinian Territories
        PY  - 2019/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12209
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp12209
        AB  - We study the effect of parental job loss on child school dropout in developing countries. We focus on Palestinian households living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and having the household head employed in Israel during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). We exploit quarterly variation in conflict intensity across districts in the OPT to instrument for Palestinian workers' job loss in Israel. Our 2SLS results show that parental job loss increases child school dropout probability by 9 percentage points. The effect varies with child and household characteristics. We provide evidence that the effect operates through the job loss-induced reduction in household income.
        KW  - Second Intifada
KW  - conflict
KW  - school dropout
KW  - job loss
KW  - Occupied Palestinian Territories
KW  - Israel
        ER  -