Could education promote the Israeli-Palestinian peace process?

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The goal of this paper is to measure Palestinians' attitudes towards a peace process and their determinants. One novelty is to define these attitudes as multidimensional and to measure them carefully using a flexible item response model. Results show that education, on which previous evidence appears contradictory, has a positive effect on attitudes towards concessions but a negative effect on attitudes towards reconciliation. This could occur if more educated people, who currently have very low returns to education, have more to gain from peace but are less willing to reconcile because of resentment acquired due to their experience.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: cemmap working paper ; No. CWP27/10

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Education and Research Institutions: General ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration ; Economywide Country Studies: Asia including Middle East
• Subject: conflict resolution ; education ; latent attitudes ; item response models ; Konflikt ; Bürgerkrieg ; Bildungsinvestition ; Palästina ; Israel

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): El-Attar, Mayssun
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)
• (where): London
• (when): 2010

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1920/wp.cem.2010.2710
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/64772
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET