Replication Code for University Closures and War Impact on Human Capital

Replication code for the study "Education Interrupted: The Long-Term Consequences of Large-Scale University Closures and War on Human Capital". The associated data is publicly available from IPUMS International. The package was authored by Mahdi Majbouri and last updated on May 4, 2026.

Use Cases

• Replicate econometric analysis on the impact of university closures based on the study's methodology.
• Study the long-term effects of war on human capital accumulation using the provided statistical code.
• Analyze the relationship between educational disruption and socioeconomic outcomes as described in the original paper.

Strengths

• Provides direct replication materials for a published academic study on a specific topic.
• Links to publicly available source data from the authoritative IPUMS International platform.

Limitations

• The dataset itself is not included; users must separately access data from IPUMS International.
• Column-level documentation for the underlying data is absent from this package; semantics must be inferred from the source.
• Row count and data scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment prior to download.

Provenance

Source

IPUMS International

Collection Method

Data collection method is not specified in this package; refer to IPUMS International documentation.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-04 23:28:01; freshness should be verified.

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