Paper details

Paper authors	Dahab Aglan
In panel on	Impacts of war and displacement on refugees’ educational trajectories
Paper presenter(s) will be presenting	In-Person / Online

Abstract

Abstract:
Conflict with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) resulted in the internal displacement of nearly six million Iraqis. This study aims to measure the extent of the impact of displacement associated with the ISIL conflict on displaced children’s school attendance. We use data on a child’s previous residence or current residence, depending on displacement status, from the 2017 Rapid Welfare Monitoring Survey. Using an instrumental variables strategy to account for endogeneity of displacement status, we use distance from the displaced (non-displaced) child’s previous (current) residence to the nearest border crossing with Syria. We find that conflict displacement decreases displaced children’s school attendance in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) by about 16 percentage points, highlighting the vulnerability of displaced children in this region.

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