The Education Dilemma: Favoring the In-group or Assimilating the Out-group?

• In Event: Historical Approaches to the Study of Middle East Politics (Co-sponsored with Section 66: Politics & History)

Brief Overview

We use an original data set of primary schools and the ethno-religious characteristics of over 30,000 villages in Turkey to examine the relationship between primary school allocation and ethno-religious mobilization between 1940-2017.

Authors

• Tugba Bozcaga, Harvard University

• Asli Cansunar, University of Oxford