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| Title: | | Armed conflict and schooling: evidence from the 1994 Rwandan genocide  |
| Authors: | | Akresh, Richard de Walque, Damien |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 3516 |
| Abstract: | | To examine the impact of Rwanda´s 1994 genocide on children´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´s baseline schooling and exploits variation across provinces in the intensity of killings and which children´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. |
| Subjects: | | Civil war human capital investment education genocide Africa |
| JEL: | | I20 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20080605111 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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