%0 Generic
%T Armed Conflict And Schooling Evidence From The 1994 Rwandan Genocide
%A Akresh, Richard
%A de Walque, Damien
%A Akresh, Richard
%I The World Bank
%K Armed Conflict
%K Civil war
%K Conflict and Development
%K Education
%K Education for All
%K Genocide
%K Health, Nutrition and Population
%K Household surveys
%K Human Development
%K Policy ReseaRch
%K Policy ReseaRch WoRking PaPeR
%K Population Policies
%K Post Conflict Reconstruction
%K Primary Education
%K Progress
%K Public Services
%K War
%K Youth and Government
%D 2008
%X 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
%C The World Bank
%C Washington, D.C
%U http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2
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