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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okr-10986-355172022-09-20T00:09:03Z The Long Shadow of Short-Term Schooling Disruption : Analysis of Kuwait's Civil Service Payroll Data Bilo, Simon Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan Alansari, Ebtesam Alhumaidan, Lama AlRashidi, Faleh RETURNS TO EDUCATION PUBLIC WAGES CIVIL SERVICE MARGINAL PRODUCT OF LABOR CONFLICT-AFFECTED STATES GULF WAR LOST SCHOOLING 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. 2021-04-29T14:10:46Z 2021-04-29T14:10:46Z 2021-04 Working Paper 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 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9641 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Middle East and North Africa Kuwait |
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RETURNS TO EDUCATION PUBLIC WAGES CIVIL SERVICE MARGINAL PRODUCT OF LABOR CONFLICT-AFFECTED STATES GULF WAR LOST SCHOOLING Bilo, Simon Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan Alansari, Ebtesam Alhumaidan, Lama AlRashidi, Faleh The Long Shadow of Short-Term Schooling Disruption : Analysis of Kuwait's Civil Service Payroll Data |
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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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Working Paper |
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Bilo, Simon Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan Alansari, Ebtesam Alhumaidan, Lama AlRashidi, Faleh |
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Bilo, Simon Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan Alansari, Ebtesam Alhumaidan, Lama AlRashidi, Faleh |
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Bilo, Simon |
| title |
The Long Shadow of Short-Term Schooling Disruption : Analysis of Kuwait's Civil Service Payroll Data |
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The Long Shadow of Short-Term Schooling Disruption : Analysis of Kuwait's Civil Service Payroll Data |
| title_full |
The Long Shadow of Short-Term Schooling Disruption : Analysis of Kuwait's Civil Service Payroll Data |
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The Long Shadow of Short-Term Schooling Disruption : Analysis of Kuwait's Civil Service Payroll Data |
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The Long Shadow of Short-Term Schooling Disruption : Analysis of Kuwait's Civil Service Payroll Data |
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long shadow of short-term schooling disruption : analysis of kuwait's civil service payroll data |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2021 |
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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 |
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