Demography

Engineering

Aerospace engineering

Religious conflict

Panel data

Astrophysics

Economics

Development economics

Variation (astronomy)

Estimation

Physics

Psychology

Politics

Management

Geography

Political science

Differential (mechanical device)

Demographic economics

Econometrics

Boko haram

Criminology

Internal medicine

Sociology

Medicine

Economic growth

Insurgency

Differential effects

Socioeconomics

Journal of Development Economics

This paper quantifies the impact of the Boko Haram conflict on various educational outcomes of individuals living in North-East Nigeria during the period 2009–2016. Using individual panel fixed-effects regressions and exploiting over-time and cross-village variation in conflict intensity, we show that conflict reduces school enrolment. The negative effect is larger for children who are no longer of mandatory school age. We do not find differential effects by gender, religion, or type of residential location. Additional results from a difference-in-differences estimation strategy indicate that conflict reduces the years of education completed.

Education is forbidden: The effect of the Boko Haram conflict on education in North-East Nigeria