Together or separate? Post-conflict partition, ethnic homogenization, and the provision of public schooling

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Swee, Eik Leong
• 署名单位: University of Melbourne
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2015.05.007
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 1-15
• 关键词: Ethnic homogenization; partition; CONFLICT; Public schooling

摘要

The partitioning of political jurisdictions is becoming an increasingly common component of agreements to end ethnic conflict, although its impact on post-conflict recovery remains unclear. This paper studies the effects of the partition which ended the 1992-1995 Bosnian War on the post-war provision of public schooling. I find that partitioned municipalities provide 58% more primary schools and 37% more teachers (per capita). Driven mainly by convergent preferences for ethnically oriented schools, however, this arrangement delivers distributional consequences: in partitioned municipalities, ethnic majority children are more likely to complete primary schooling, while for ethnic minority children it is the opposite. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.