Armed Conflict And Schooling : Evidence From The 1994 Rwandan Genocide / Akresh, Richard

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2008Description: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (38 p.))Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Akresh, Richard: Armed Conflict And Schooling Online resources: Summary: 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 strategyPPN: PPN: 724229388Package identifier: Produktsigel: GBV-wba | ZDB-1-WBA | ZDB-110-WBL
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