marriage, divorce, widowhood, birth of child, and layoff. However, there is little evidence of adaptation to unemployment. Men …

. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of child and widowhood appears to be rapid and complete; this is not so for unemployment …

To examine the impact of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide on children’s schooling, the authors combine two cross … group’s baseline schooling and exploits variation across provinces in the intensity of killings and which children’s cohorts … exposed children completing one-half year less education representing an 18.3 percent decline. The effect is robust to …

Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal …

The identification of the effect of wars on human capital tends to focus on the population of school age children at …