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First Palestinian intifada and intergenerational transmission of human capital

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This paper attempts to estimate the intergenerational transmission of human capital in Palestine. The main question is whether formal parental education improves their offspring’s cognitive skills and school achievements. I use the instrumental variable method in the estimations to overcome the potential endogeneity of parental education. The main source of variation in parental educational attainment is parents’ exposure to the First Palestinian Intifada (1988–1993) during their middle and high school ages. During the First Palestinian Intifada, many school days were lost due to frequent school closures and other restrictions. Furthermore, many young people preferred to search for low-skill employment in Israel, since it provided them with better wages than the local labour market and hardly required any level of educational attainment. This study employs two outcomes, namely the standardised cognitive test scores and school achievements during the academic year 2012/2013 for students between grade 5 and grade 9 in West Bank schools. Overall, the results support the hypothesis of a human capital spill-over but more so for girls than for boys, where the instrumental variables results are often insignificant because of their large standard errors.

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  • Sameh Hallaq, 2021. "First Palestinian intifada and intergenerational transmission of human capital," Studies in Economics and Econometrics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(4), pages 209-242, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rseexx:v:45:y:2021:i:4:p:209-242
    DOI: 10.1080/03796205.2022.2043769
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