Civil Conflict and Quality of Educational: Evidence from the SLC Exam in Nepal

• In Event: Poster Session: Frontiers in Conflict Processes

Abstract

Besides the social economic consequences of civil conflicts, recent studies have also started to examine the effect of such violence on educational outcome. In Nepal, despite the well-documented devastations of the decade-long civil war on basic education, measures of quantities of education such as literacy rate and school enrollment at the national level continued to improve rapidly, which is also confirmed by previous empirical studies at the individual level. However, in terms of the quality of education, this study shows a much more pessimistic picture. Regression analysis at the district level indicates that there is a statistically significant and substantively large negative impact of conflict intensity, measured in number of victims in civil war killings per 1,000 people, on the average pass rate for schools in the SLC examination immediately after the end of the civil war at the district level, when all the other variables are controlled for.

Authors

• Gang Guo, University of Mississippi

• Prachanda Adhikari, The University of Mississippi

• Mahesh Acharya, The University of Mississippi