TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Alfano, Marco
AU  - Goerlach, Joseph-Simon
        TI  - Instrumenting the Effect of Terrorism on Education in Kenya
        PY  - 2023/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16544
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16544
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - conflict
KW  - education
KW  - instrumental variables
        ER  -