2014/01/21 by Arzu Kibris, Arzu Kıbrıs · 63 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Association (psychology) #Demography #International Development and Aid #Law #Political Conflict and Governance #Political science #Politics #Psychology #Social conflict #Social psychology #Socioeconomic status #Sociology #Turkey's Politics and Society #Turkish
paper · doi:10.1177/0022002713516845
published in Journal of Conflict Resolution 59(4), 645-670 (SAGE Publishing)
openalex publication_date 2014/01/21 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/26
This article analyzes the association between civil conflicts and educational achievement by studying the Turkish case. It combines the 2005 university entrance exam scores of more than 1.6 million students and a newly constructed data set on the casualties of the Turkish–Kurdish conflict to study the association between the conflict and educational achievement of Turkish students. The results reveal a significant negative association. Combined with the already well-established positive links between education and various measures of socioeconomic development like economic growth, social equality, and public health, the results in this article demonstrate that education is one of the channels through which civil conflicts damage the well-being of societies thereby creating the conditions that perpetuate them.