Education and Civil Conflict in Nepal

Between 1996 and 2006, Nepal experienced violent civil conflict as a consequence of a Maoist insurgency, which many argue also brought about an increase in female empowerment. This paper exploits variations in exposure to conflict by birth cohort, survey date, and district to estimate the impact of...

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Main Author:	Valente, Christine
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2015
Subjects:	access to schooling education programs education services educational attainment educational outcomes enrollment female education girls human development human rights primary school primary school enrollment primary schooling returns to education school teachers schooling schools teacher absenteeism teachers youth
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23544

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spelling	okr-10986-235442021-04-23T14:04:15Z Education and Civil Conflict in Nepal Valente, Christine access to schooling education programs education services educational attainment educational outcomes enrollment female education girls human development human rights primary school primary school enrollment primary schooling returns to education school teachers schooling schools teacher absenteeism teachers youth Between 1996 and 2006, Nepal experienced violent civil conflict as a consequence of a Maoist insurgency, which many argue also brought about an increase in female empowerment. This paper exploits variations in exposure to conflict by birth cohort, survey date, and district to estimate the impact of the insurgency on education outcomes. Overall conflict intensity, measured by conflict casualties, is associated with an increase in female educational attainment, whereas abductions by Maoists, which often targeted school children, have the reverse effect. Male schooling tended to increase more rapidly in areas where the fighting was more intense, but the estimates are smaller in magnitude and more sensitive to specification than estimates for females. Similar results are obtained across different specifications, and robustness checks indicate that these findings are not due to selective migration. 2015-12-29T21:47:20Z 2015-12-29T21:47:20Z 2014-05-27 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23544 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Nepal
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description	Between 1996 and 2006, Nepal experienced violent civil conflict as a consequence of a Maoist insurgency, which many argue also brought about an increase in female empowerment. This paper exploits variations in exposure to conflict by birth cohort, survey date, and district to estimate the impact of the insurgency on education outcomes. Overall conflict intensity, measured by conflict casualties, is associated with an increase in female educational attainment, whereas abductions by Maoists, which often targeted school children, have the reverse effect. Male schooling tended to increase more rapidly in areas where the fighting was more intense, but the estimates are smaller in magnitude and more sensitive to specification than estimates for females. Similar results are obtained across different specifications, and robustness checks indicate that these findings are not due to selective migration.
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Education and Civil Conflict in Nepal

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