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Should I stay or should I go? The effect of London’s terrorist attack on the educational choices of Muslims

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  • Diego Astorga-Rojas

    (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana)

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This paper evaluates how the July 2005 London terrorist attacks affected Muslim teenagers’ education plans and decisions. The attacks triggered a violent backslash against the Muslim community, which could have affected their incentives to continue in full-time education. I examine panel data on educational attitudes from the “Next Steps” Survey in England and use the month the survey was administered to divide individuals into treatment and control groups. I find that the attacks negatively affected the education plans of Muslims, but not those of any other major religious group. The probability of planning to continue in non-compulsory full-time education decreased by around 4.4% points for Muslims after the attacks. This corresponds to a 69% increase in individuals who were not sure whether to continue or drop out of full-time education. However, this change in plans appears to be a temporary reaction, since it did not affect students’ actual decisions two years later.

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  • Diego Astorga-Rojas, 2023. "Should I stay or should I go? The effect of London’s terrorist attack on the educational choices of Muslims," SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, Springer;Spanish Economic Association, vol. 14(3), pages 463-501, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:series:v:14:y:2023:i:3:d:10.1007_s13209-023-00282-2
    DOI: 10.1007/s13209-023-00282-2
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    Keywords

    Education; Terrorism;

    JEL classification:

    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • I29 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Other
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination

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