TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Jürges, Hendrik
AU  - Stella, Luca
AU  - Hallaq, Sameh
AU  - Schwarz, Alexandra
        TI  - Cohort at Risk: Long-Term Consequences of Conflict for Child School Achievement
        PY  - 2017/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10994
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10994
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - conflict
KW  - schooling
KW  - children
        ER  -