@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp10994, author={Jürges, Hendrik and Stella, Luca and Hallaq, Sameh and Schwarz, Alexandra}, title={Cohort at Risk: Long-Term Consequences of Conflict for Child School Achievement}, year={2017}, month={Sep}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={10994}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10994}, abstract={We investigate the long-term effects of households' exposure to violent conflict on children's educational attainment in primary school, studying cognitive and non-cognitive skills as possible causal channels. Our identification strategy exploits the locality-level variation in the intensity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000–2005). We show that an increase in family experience of conflict has large negative long-term effects on the educational attainment of children measured by grade point averages. Impaired non-cognitive rather than cognitive skills are identified as channels through which exposure affects children's educational achievement.}, keywords={conflict;schooling;children}, }