Forced displacement and educational achievement in Bogota's public schools

The Colombian civil conflict has been going on for many decades affecting civilians directly and indirectly. One of the repercussions of this long-term conflict has been the forced displacement of civilians from conflict areas. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the differences in the performance in the Colombian national high school exit examination between students who were displaced and those who were not (host students). This paper uses two different methodologies to estimate these differences: fixed effects regressions and an inverse probability weighting approach. The results obtained provide clear evidence of the negative association between displacement and human capital accumulation.