The Long Shadow of Short-Term Schooling Disruption : Analysis of Kuwait's Civil Service Payroll Data (English)

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...
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Bilo,Simon; Ajwad,Mohamed Ihsan; Alansari,Ebtesam; Alhumaidan,Lama; Alrashidi,Faleh M F E.

The Long Shadow of Short-Term Schooling Disruption : Analysis of Kuwait's Civil Service Payroll Data (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9641 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/725411619449420838

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