Together or Separate? Post-Conflict Partition, Ethnic Homogenization, and the Provision of Public Schooling

Swee, Eik Leong

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2487174

Cited by 12 publications

(18 citation statements)

References 42 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Post-war ethnic segregation is a glaring feature of post-war Bosnia, and ethnic minorities are often disadvantaged in terms of access to schooling (Bozic, 2006;OSCE, 2007;Swee, 2015). 21 However, I find that adding 20 These conclusions are similar to the findings of Merrouche (2011), Shemyakina (2011) and Akresh and de Walque (2008), who find that lower quality of school infrastructure is not an important mechanism through which civil war affects schooling outcomes.…”

Section: Aftermathsupporting

confidence: 57%

On war intensity and schooling attainment: The case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Swee

2015

European Journal of Political Economy

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Aftermathsupporting

confidence: 57%

On war intensity and schooling attainment: The case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Swee

2015

European Journal of Political Economy

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…For most parents that seems hardly affordable, given that a qualified teacher earned in 1996 only 120 Convertible Mark per month (UNESCO 1996) and unemployment is high. 4 In the years following the publication of these reports, some reforms concerning the curriculum took place and in 2004 primary school was extended to 9 years (Swee 2010). International aid has certainly improved some issues, but it is unclear if this reduced the parents' financial burden of having children in school.…”

Section: The Education System In Bosnia and Herzegovinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Displacement and education of the next generation: evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Eder

2014

IZA J Labor Develop

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this paper, I study the effect of displacement (in the sense of forced migration) of parents during a violent conflict on investment in their childrens' education years later. Using the ethnic division during the Bosnian War as a natural experiment, I plausibly identify exogenously displaced households and compare them to households who did not have to move because of the war. Displaced parents spend between 20 and 30% less on the education of their children in primary and secondary school. The result also holds for single expenditure positions like textbooks, school materials and annual tuition in secondary school. A number of robustness checks and nearest-neighbor matching is performed to confirm the finding. A decomposition of the causal effect shows that differences in income and the stock of durable goods can at most explain one third of the finding. Potential explanations for the reduced spending of displaced parents on education include altered preferences through the exposure to violence, increased uncertainty about the future, and financial constraints. JEL Classification: I25; J15; O15

show abstract

“…This paper contributes to various strands of literature. First, our results are related to the emerging literature on subnational border changes in the developing world and their implications for economic outcomes (Burgess et al, 2012;Asher and Novosad, 2015;Swee, 2015;Grossman et al, 2017;Lipscomb and Mobarak, 2017). 9 For example, Asher and Novosad (2015) find that in India, living conditions in new states that were carved out of existing states improve after the split.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 51%

Subnational Border Reforms and Economic Development in Africa

Baskaran

Blesse

2018

SSRN Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A recent literature suggests that arbitrarily designed administrative borders are an important reason why sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the least developed regions on the globe. Accordingly, administrative border reforms may be a way to promote growth on the African continent. In this paper, we study the effect of subnational administrative border reforms on local economic development (proxied by nighttime luminosity) by tracking state-level border changes in Africa during 1992-2013 with GIS techniques. Difference-indifference regressions suggest that mergers have strong positive effects on economic development. Splits, too, have positive effects, but they are substantially smaller on average. To understand why the economic impact of splits and mergers differs in magnitude, we investigate transmission channels. We link border changes to geocoded conflict data and survey evidence on political attitudes as well as service delivery. We find that the differences between splits and mergers are possibly due to different underlying motives for these two types of border reforms. Splits seem to affect development through higher political stability, i.e. a lower incidence of conflicts and more benign political attitudes of citizens, while mergers presumably work through an improvement in administrative efficiency.

show abstract

Together or Separate? Post-Conflict Partition, Ethnic Homogenization, and the Provision of Public Schooling

Cited by 12 publications

References 42 publications

On war intensity and schooling attainment: The case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

On war intensity and schooling attainment: The case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Displacement and education of the next generation: evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Subnational Border Reforms and Economic Development in Africa

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About