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Title: The Schooling Gap between the Deep South and the Rest of the South in Thailand
Authors: Uddin, Md. Nasir
Sarntisart, Saran
Keywords: Deep South of Thailand
Conflict
Religion
Gender
Instrumental Variable
Issue Date: 2022
Publisher: Routledge
Citation: Uddin and Sarntisart (2022) The Schooling Gap between the Deep South and the Rest of the South in Thailand, Defence and Peace Economics, DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2022.2027183
Abstract: This paper aims to compare the educational attainment of a conflict region (the Deep South) and a non-conflict region (the rest of the South) of Thailand using the Socio-Economic Survey, 2015. This paper employs the Instrumental Variable approach and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition in an intergenerational regression model. When controlling parental schooling, household income and size, religion, and gender, the results show that children from the Deep South obtain almost one year less schooling than children from the rest of the Southern region. Interestingly, Muslims are ahead in terms of educational attainment when compared to non-Muslims in the non-conflict region, but not in the conflict region. Females outperform males in both regions, but the coefficient of female dummy is higher in the non-conflict region. Moreover, the rate of intergenerational transmission of educational attainment is higher in the Deep South compared to that in the rest of the southern region, which may lead to longterm educational inequality in the Deep South region. The OaxacaBlinder decomposition confirms that the 40% schooling gap between these two regions is unexplained but might be due to the chronic social unrest. The findings of this paper show that customized educational reforms and policies to resolve the conflict in the Deep South of Thailand should be employed.
URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2022.2027183
http://dspace.aiub.edu:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/281
ISSN: 1024-2694
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