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preference transmission; education; historical experiment; Pakistan

Lost in Partition? Culture, Ethnicities and Education from the British Raj to Modern Pakistan

Author(s): 
Maqsood Aslam* Etienne Farvaque† Muhammad Azmat Hayat‡
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
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If early childhood exposure to shocks influences educational outcomes, how long does the effect last, and does it differ among ethnic groups? This study answers these questions by presenting a theoretical model that explains the differentiated impact of a shock on different ethnic groups, and by exploiting the historical experiment of partition, i.e., the splitting of the British Raj into India and Pakistan.