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We study how armed conflicts affected educational outcomes in Rwanda during the nineties, relying on two waves of population census data and on a difference-in-differences identification strategy. Our results indicate that the conflicts caused on average a 22% drop in schooling attainments,...
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by examining the changes in the presence of educated people after the Rwanda genocide. We find that the genocide reduced … within Rwanda variation in intensity of genocide is exploited there is no evidence of statistically significant differences …. This suggests that the losses in the stock of human capital due to the Rwandan genocide were aggregate in nature. …
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rural household survey before the Rwandan genocide (1994). Economic, demographic and agricultural data from an extensive … 1989-1992 survey can be linked with the condition of the household at the time of the Genocide Transition Survey (2000 …). This allows us to study the fate of the household members during the genocide. Our results show that age, sex, the sex of …
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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 … were school-aged when exposed to the war. The findings show a strong negative impact of the genocide on schooling, with …
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There is an extensive literature on violent conflicts such as the 1994 Rwandan genocide, but few papers examine the … demographic consequences of the Rwandan genocide and how the excess mortality due to the conflict was distributed in the … background were more likely to die. Over and above the human tragedies, a long-term cost of the genocide is the country s loss of …
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