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The education backlash: How assimilative primary school education affects insurgency in areas of ethnic conflict

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  • Tugba Bozcaga
  • Asli Cansunar

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Education is a public service, assumed to be highly valued by citizens, allowing politicians to use it to reward their co-ethnics. However, nation-states have also used education to create loyal citizens, leaving politicians in times of heightened threat of ethnic mobilization. This study investigates whether assimilatory national public investments in ethnic minority areas induce violence.

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  • Tugba Bozcaga & Asli Cansunar, 2023. "The education backlash: How assimilative primary school education affects insurgency in areas of ethnic conflict," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2023-50, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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