@techreport{Akresh2008Armed,
abstract = {To examine the impact of Rwanda\textasciiacute{}s 1994 genocide on children\textasciiacute{}s schooling, the authors combine two cross-sectional household surveys collected before and after the genocide. The identification strategy uses pre-war data to control for an age group\textasciiacute{}s baseline schooling and exploits variation across provinces in the intensity of killings and which children\textasciiacute{}s cohorts were school-aged when exposed to the war. The findings show a strong negative impact of the genocide on schooling, with exposed children completing one-half year less education representing an 18.3 percent decline. The effect is robust to including control variables, alternative sources for genocide intensity, and an instrumental variables strategy.},
address = {Bonn},
author = {Richard Akresh and Damien de Walque},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {I20; 330; Civil war; human capital investment; education; genocide; Africa; Politischer Konflikt; Bildungsverhalten; Schule; Ruanda},
language = {eng},
note = {urn:nbn:de:101:1-20080605111},
number = {3516},
publisher = {IZA},
title = {Armed conflict and schooling: evidence from the 1994 Rwandan genocide},
type = {IZA Discussion Papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35256},
year = {2008}
}
