The Long Shadow of Short-Term Schooling Disruption : Analysis of Kuwait's Civil Service Payroll Data
This paper estimates the long-term impacts of schooling disruptions on private returns to schooling in Kuwait. It applies an instrumental variables approach to estimate the private returns to schooling, using unique civil service payroll data, with...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/725411619449420838/The-Long-Shadow-of-Short-Term-Schooling-Disruption-Analysis-of-Kuwaits-Civil-Service-Payroll-Data http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35517 |
| Summary: | This paper estimates the long-term
impacts of schooling disruptions on private returns to
schooling in Kuwait. It applies an instrumental variables
approach to estimate the private returns to schooling, using
unique civil service payroll data, with Kuwaiti students’
exposure to the Gulf War (1990–91) as the instrument. The
Gulf War is a suitable instrument because it profoundly
affected Kuwaiti students' schooling at the time and is
unlikely to be correlated with many potentially problematic
omitted variables, such as students’ ability. The analysis
finds that (i) people who were of schooling age during the
Gulf War tend to have lower educational attainment than
people who were of schooling age after the Gulf War; (ii)
men who were of schooling age at the time of the Gulf War
earn on average 5.6 percent less for each year of schooling
lost, and women earn correspondingly 6.8 percent less for
each year of schooling lost; (iii) students who were in
lower grades during the Gulf War tend to suffer a greater
percentage wage loss for each year of lost schooling. |
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