%0 Report
        %A Alfano, Marco
%A Goerlach, Joseph-Simon
        %T Instrumenting the Effect of Terrorism on Education in Kenya
        %D 2023
        %8 2023 Oct
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 16544
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp16544
        %X This paper estimates the effect of exposure to terrorist violence on education. Since terrorists may choose targets endogenously, we construct a set of novel instruments. To that end, we leverage exogenous variation from a local terrorist group's revenues and its affiliation with al-Qaeda. Across several Kenyan datasets we find that attacks suppress school enrolment more than predicted by difference-in-differences-type estimators. This indicates that terrorists target areas experiencing unobserved, positive shocks. Evidence suggests fears and concerns as mechanisms of impact, rather than educational supply.
        %K conflict
%K education
%K instrumental variables