Effects of Armed Conflict on Educational Outcomes in Turkey

This study is the first attempt to evaluate the educational consequences of a 30-year-old internal armed conflict between the Turkish state and Kurdish insurgents, one manifestation of Turkey’s prolonged Kurdish problem. To tackle the endogeneity of conflict and omitted variable bias, I implement a...

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Published in:Alternatif politika 2014-09, Vol.6 (2), p.195-253
Main Author: Berker, Ali Murat
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bias
Civil War
Conflict
Estimation
Ethnic Minorities Studies
Females
Insurgency
Migration
Peace and Conflict Studies
Sociology of Education
State/Government and Education
Time Periods
Turkey
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Summary:This study is the first attempt to evaluate the educational consequences of a 30-year-old internal armed conflict between the Turkish state and Kurdish insurgents, one manifestation of Turkey’s prolonged Kurdish problem. To tackle the endogeneity of conflict and omitted variable bias, I implement a difference-in-differences estimation method, in which I exploit variations in exposure to conflict across provinces and over time. Estimation results suggest the presence of a robust negative association between exposure to conflict and children’s educational outcomes. This estimated negative association appears to be stronger for female children, for upper-secondary school outcomes, and for those who are exposed to conflict for a longer time period. The robustness analyses purport that the conflict’s estimated negative impacts are unlikely to be driven by either conflict-induced migration or underlying province specific trends.
ISSN:1309-0593
1309-0593