Education and Civil Conflict in Nepal
研究1996-2006年尼泊尔毛派叛乱引发的国内冲突对教育的影响，发现冲突强度（以伤亡衡量）提高了女性受教育程度，但毛派绑架（常针对学童）则产生相反效果；男性教育在冲突激烈地区增长更快，但效应较弱且对模型设定敏感。
Between 1996 and 2006, Nepal experienced violent civil conflict as a consequence of a Maoist insurgency, which many argue also brought about an increase in female empowerment. This paper exploits variations in exposure to conflict by birth cohort, survey date, and district to estimate the impact of the insurgency on education outcomes. Overall conflict intensity, measured by conflict casualties, is associated with an increase in female educational attainment, whereas abductions by Maoists, which often targeted school children, have the reverse effect. Male schooling tended to increase more rapidly in areas where the fighting was more intense, but the estimates are smaller in magnitude and more sensitive to specification than estimates for females. Similar results are obtained across different specifications, and robustness checks indicate that these findings are not due to selective migration.