Books and guns: the quality of schools in conflict zones

This paper investigates the causal effect of armed conflict on the educational achievement of Colombian high school graduates, proxied by their scores on a national standardized test. Given the possible endogeneity of conflict, we use as an instrument the exogenous occurrence of natural disasters in...

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Autores:
Rodríguez Orgales, Catherine
Sánchez Torres, Fabio José
Tipo de recurso:
Work document
Fecha de publicación:
2010
Institución:
Universidad de los Andes
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Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
Idioma:
eng
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Palabra clave:
Armed conflict
Educational achievement
Colombia
Conflicto armado - Aspectos económicos - Colombia
Educación - Aspectos económicos - Colombia
Educación - Aspectos sociales - Colombia
I21, I29, O12
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spelling Al consultar y hacer uso de este recurso, está aceptando las condiciones de uso establecidas por los autores.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Rodríguez Orgales, Catherine10235600Sánchez Torres, Fabio José4f20b82e-a6b2-420c-ad06-184ea31ee5816002018-09-27T16:51:27Z2018-09-27T16:51:27Z20101657-5334http://hdl.handle.net/1992/82331657-719110.57784/1992/8233instname:Universidad de los Andesreponame:Repositorio Institucional Sénecarepourl:https://repositorio.uniandes.edu.co/This paper investigates the causal effect of armed conflict on the educational achievement of Colombian high school graduates, proxied by their scores on a national standardized test. Given the possible endogeneity of conflict, we use as an instrument the exogenous occurrence of natural disasters in neighboring municipalities. Using this strategy and based on information at the student level, we find that an increase of one standard deviation in our conflict measure decreases scholastic achievement by 0.75 standard deviations. The results suggest that this effect is not driven by supply-side factors but rather by conflict affecting students and families directly. Moreover, the results are robust to different specifications and alternative identification strategies.Este trabajo investiga el efecto causal del conflicto armado en el logro educativo de los bachilleres de Colombia, utilizando como proxy los puntajes obtenidos en una prueba estandarizada nacional. Teniendo en cuenta la posible endogeneidad del conflicto, utilizamos como instrumento la ocurrencia exógena de los desastres naturales en los municipios vecinos. Utilizando esta estrategia, y basándose en la información a nivel de estudiantes, nos encontramos con que un aumento de una desviación estándar en nuestra medida conflicto disminuye el rendimiento escolar en 0,75 desviaciones estándar. Los resultados sugieren que este efecto no se debe a factores de oferta, sino más bien por lo impactos directos o indirectos del conflicto que afectan a los estudiantes y familias. Por otra parte, los resultados son robustos a diferentes especificaciones y estrategias de identificación alternativa.49 páginasapplication/pdfengUniversidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDEDocumentos CEDE No. 38 Noviembre de 2010https://ideas.repec.org/p/col/000089/020111.htmlBooks and guns: the quality of schools in conflict zonesDocumento de trabajoinfo:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85Texthttps://purl.org/redcol/resource_type/WPArmed conflictEducational achievementColombiaConflicto armado - Aspectos económicos - ColombiaEducación - Aspectos económicos - ColombiaEducación - Aspectos sociales - ColombiaI21, I29, O12Facultad de EconomíaPublicationTHUMBNAILdcede2010-38.pdf.jpgdcede2010-38.pdf.jpgIM Thumbnailimage/jpeg3231https://repositorio.uniandes.edu.co/bitstreams/06c534ae-0842-40cf-a222-70dbc67b2c9b/download4d2ef9bfd453110747db20f60a1d8270MD55TEXTdcede2010-38.pdf.txtdcede2010-38.pdf.txtExtracted texttext/plain79189https://repositorio.uniandes.edu.co/bitstreams/3d60e916-45fb-42f5-818e-653913dbae10/download460130a2fced8cf5742f59f363bf3f94MD54ORIGINALdcede2010-38.pdfdcede2010-38.pdfapplication/pdf855333https://repositorio.uniandes.edu.co/bitstreams/522961ab-37f0-4895-9508-d8f765d4ce77/downloadd8dc43d4c6c27215e79add25e5ffdc34MD511992/8233oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/82332024-06-04 15:40:01.211http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/open.accesshttps://repositorio.uniandes.edu.coRepositorio institucional Sénecaadminrepositorio@uniandes.edu.co
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title Books and guns: the quality of schools in conflict zones
spellingShingle Books and guns: the quality of schools in conflict zones
Armed conflict
Educational achievement
Colombia
Conflicto armado - Aspectos económicos - Colombia
Educación - Aspectos económicos - Colombia
Educación - Aspectos sociales - Colombia
I21, I29, O12
title_short Books and guns: the quality of schools in conflict zones
title_full Books and guns: the quality of schools in conflict zones
title_fullStr Books and guns: the quality of schools in conflict zones
title_full_unstemmed Books and guns: the quality of schools in conflict zones
title_sort Books and guns: the quality of schools in conflict zones
dc.creator.fl_str_mv Rodríguez Orgales, Catherine
Sánchez Torres, Fabio José
dc.contributor.author.none.fl_str_mv Rodríguez Orgales, Catherine
Sánchez Torres, Fabio José
dc.subject.keyword.none.fl_str_mv Armed conflict
Educational achievement
Colombia
topic Armed conflict
Educational achievement
Colombia
Conflicto armado - Aspectos económicos - Colombia
Educación - Aspectos económicos - Colombia
Educación - Aspectos sociales - Colombia
I21, I29, O12
dc.subject.armarc.none.fl_str_mv Conflicto armado - Aspectos económicos - Colombia
Educación - Aspectos económicos - Colombia
Educación - Aspectos sociales - Colombia
dc.subject.jel.none.fl_str_mv I21, I29, O12
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