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Gender bias in education during conflict: Evidence from Assam

Roy, Sutanuka - 2016

Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...

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Education from the bottom up: UNICEF's education programme in Somalia

Williams, James - 2013

state collapse. Initially, education and other government services came to a standstill. With the halt of fighting in some … education and other critical services. Since then, slow progress has been made in providing educational services to increasing … regional and national administrative systems to continue development of the education system. UNICEF played a central role in …

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Understanding Somalia's social contract and state-building efforts: Consequences for donor interventions

Cloutier, Mathieu; Hassan, Hodan; Isser, Deborah H.; … - 2022

the social contract in Somalia use the lenses of security, education, and taxes to describe the current setting. It is …

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Mapping the impacts of food aid: Current knowledge and future directions

Margolies, Amy; Hoddinott, John - 2012

This paper provides an overview on the impacts of food aid. We consider its effects on consumption, nutrition, food markets and labour supply, as well as the extent to which it exacerbates or mitigates conflict. We also consider the comparative evidence on alternatives to food aid including...

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Windows of peace: The effect of ceasefires on economic recovery

Armand, Alex; Marending, Myriam; Vysotskaya, Galina - 2023

While much of the literature studies causes and consequences of war, the reverberations of peace have rarely been studied. By focusing on the universe of ceasefire agreements since 1993, we study the causal effect of peace on economic recovery using a regression discontinuity in time approach....

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