TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Akresh, Richard
AU  - Walque, Damien de
        TI  - Armed Conflict and Schooling: Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
        PY  - 2008/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3516
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3516
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - civil war
KW  - human capital investment
KW  - education
KW  - genocide
KW  - Africa
        ER  -