Roberto Nisticò is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Naples Federico II (Italy) and Research Fellow at the Center for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Essex (UK). Roberto’s research focuses on Development Economics, Economics of Conflict, Labor Economics and Political Economics. He recently published “Coups d'ètat and defense spending: a counterfactual analysis” (with V. Bove) in Public Choice and “Military in politics and budgetary allocations” (with V. Bove) in Journal of Comparative Economics. He is currently working on “The effect of parental job loss on child school dropout: evidence from the Occupied Palestinian Territories” (with Michele Di Maio), which has been awarded the 2017 Etta Chiuri Prize by the Italian Society of Public Economics (SIEP).

Session IV - Human Capital - 26/10/2017 16:30 - 18:15

The Effect of Parental Job Loss on Child School Drop Out: Evidence from Occupied Palestinian
Territories

We examine the effect of parental job loss on child school dropout in the context of a developing country, namely the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

We employ an IV estimation strategy and exploit conflict-induced job loss during the Second Intifada.

Results show that parental job loss increases child school dropout probability by 9 percentage points.

The effect varies with child's gender and academic ability and with parental education and number of children in the household.
We also provide evidence suggesting that the reduction in household income is likely the mechanism whereby parental job loss can affect child school dropout.

Other Speakers in this session:

Michele Di Maio (University of Naples “Parthenope")
Education is Forbidden: The Effect of the Boko Haram Conflict on Schooling in Nigeria

Lucia Mangiavacchi (University of Balearic Islands and IZA)
Fostering, Children’s Time Use and Schooling in Niger: A test of the Cinderella Effect