%0 Report
        %A Akresh, Richard
%A Walque, Damien de
        %T Armed Conflict and Schooling: Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
        %D 2008
        %8 2008 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 3516
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3516
        %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.
        %K civil war
%K human capital investment
%K education
%K genocide
%K Africa