The Intergenerational Effects of Economic Sanctions

doi:doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhab024

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The Intergenerational Effects of Economic Sanctions

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dc.contributor.author	Moeeni, Safoura
dc.date.accessioned	2024-01-17T14:43:56Z
dc.date.available	2024-01-17T14:43:56Z
dc.date.issued	2021-10-23
dc.description.abstract	While economic sanctions are successful in achieving political goals, they can hurt the civilian population. These negative effects could be even more detrimental and long lasting for future generations. This study estimates the effects of economic sanctions on children’s education by exploiting the United Nations sanctions imposed on Iran in 2006. Using the variation in the strength of sanctions across industries and difference-in-differences with synthetic control analyses, this study finds that the sanctions decreased children’s total years of schooling by 0.1 years and the probability of attending college by 4.8 percentage points. Moreover, households reduced education spending by 58 percent, particularly on school tuition. These effects are larger for children who were exposed to the sanctions for longer. The results imply that sanctions have a larger effect on the income of children than their parents. Therefore, ignoring the effects of sanctions on future generations significantly understates their total economic costs.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	The World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/40900
dc.identifier.issn	0258-6770 (print)
dc.identifier.issn	1564-698X (online)
dc.identifier.uri	https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/40900
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	World Bank Economic Review
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	EDUCATION
dc.subject	PARENTAL INVESTMENT
dc.subject	ECONOMIC SANCTIONS
dc.subject	INTERGENERATIONAL EFFECTS
dc.title	The Intergenerational Effects of Economic Sanctions	en
dc.type	Working Paper
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okr.crossref.title	The Intergenerational Effects of Economic Sanctions
okr.date.disclosure	2024-01-17
okr.date.lastmodified	2023-12-11T00:00:00Z	en
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okr.doctype	Publications & Research
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okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.region.administrative	Middle East and North Africa
okr.region.country	Iran, Islamic Republic of
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Development Patterns and Poverty
okr.topic	Conflict and Development::Conflict and Fragile States
okr.unit	Off of Sr VP Dev Econ/Chief Econ (DECVP)
okr.volume	36 (2)
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