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Brunner and Mihailov (January 2023) 55 For instance, Shemyakina (2011) examines the effect of exposure to the Tajik civil war between 1992 and 1998 on boys’ and girls’ probability of completing their compulsory schooling and on school enrollment rates just after the conflict. Using data from the 1999 and 2003 Tajik Living Standards Surveys, she exploits differences in exposure to the war across regions, birth cohorts and households and finds that, while boys’ education was not significantly affected by the Tajik armed conflict, girls who were of school age during the war and lived in conflict-affected regions are 7.3 percent less likely to complete their mandatory schooling than similarly aged girls unaffected by the war. Moreover, she finds that the school enrollment rate of treated girls in 1999 is significantly lower than that of untreated girls by approximately 12 pp.