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dc.contributor.authorJustino, Patricia
dc.contributor.authorLeone, Marinella
dc.contributor.authorSalardi, Paola
dc.coverage.spatialTimor Lesteen_GB
dc.coverage.spatialEast Timoren_GB
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-30T15:46:40Z
dc.date.available2014-07-30T15:46:40Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationJustino, P., Leone, M. & Salardi, P. (2011) Education and conflict recovery : the case of Timor Leste. Working paper series, 381. Brighton: IDS.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/4238
dc.description.abstractThe Timor Leste secession conflict lasted for 25 years. Its last wave of violence in 1999, following the withdrawal of Indonesian troops, generated massive displacement and destruction with widespread consequences for the economic and social development of the country. This paper analyses the impact of the conflict on the level and access to education of boys and girls in Timor Leste. We examine the short-term impact of the 1999 violence on school attendance and grade deficit rates in 2001, and the longer-term impact of the conflict on primary school completion of cohorts of children observed in 2007. We compare also the educational impact of the 1999 wave of violence with the impact of other periods of highintensity violence during the 25 years of Indonesian occupation. The short-term effects of the conflict are mixed. In the longer term, we find a strong negative impact of the conflict on primary school completion among boys of school age exposed to peaks of violence during the 25-year long conflict. The effect is stronger for boys attending the last three grades of primary school. This result shows a substantial loss of human capital among young males in Timor Leste since the early 1970s, resulting from household investment trade-offs between education and economic survival. Keywords: conflict; education; children; gender.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherIDSen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIDS working papers;381
dc.rights.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdfen_GB
dc.subjectChildren and Youthen_GB
dc.subjectEducationen_GB
dc.subjectGenderen_GB
dc.subjectSecurity and Conflicten_GB
dc.subjectWork and Labouren_GB
dc.titleEducation and conflict recovery : the case of Timor Lesteen_GB
dc.typeIDS Working Paperen_GB
dc.rights.holderInstitute of Development Studiesen_GB


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