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The Demographic and Socio-Economic Distribution of Excess Mortality during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda

Walque, Damien de; Verwimp, Philip - Households in Conflict Network - 2009

demographic consequences of the Rwandan genocide and how the excess mortality due to the conflict was distributed in the …

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War and the Destruction of Human Capital

Agüero, Jorge M.; Majid, Muhammad Farhan - Households in Conflict Network - 2014

by examining the changes in the presence of educated people after the Rwanda genocide. We find that the genocide reduced … the stock of human capital in Rwanda severely. The before-and-after results show that highly educated individuals (i ….e., those with primary education or more) are “missing” at a rate that is 19.4% higher than the less educated. Moreover, Rwanda …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010737389

Micro-level Evidence from Rwanda

Verwimp, Philip - Households in Conflict Network - 2003

interpreted in the political economy of Rwanda. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005767763

Armed conflict and schooling in Rwanda: Digging deeper

Guariso, Andrea; Verpoorten, Marijke - Households in Conflict Network - 2015

We study how armed conflicts affected educational outcomes in Rwanda during the nineties, relying on two waves of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195715

Civil War and the Welfare of Extended Households: Evidence from Longitudinal Data from Burundi

Verwimp, Philip; Bundervoet, Tom - Households in Conflict Network - 2009

We analyse the effect of violence and rebellion on the evolution of household welfare. We collected new panel data for Burundi (1999-2007) in which we reinterviewed original as well as newly formed households (split-offs). We use several definitions of the household as unit of analysis and test...

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Grievance, Commodity Prices and Rainfall: A Village-level Analysis of Rebel Recruitment in Burundi

Nillesen, Eleonora; Verwimp, Philip - Households in Conflict Network - 2009

Grievance and reduced opportunity costs are two popular ideas within the civil war literature to explain participation in violent rebellion. We test both hypotheses at the village-level using data on recruitment activities during the civil war in Burundi. We use historical data on violent...

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Rivalry and Revenge: Making Sense of Violence against Civilians in Conventional Civil Wars

Balcells, Laia - Households in Conflict Network - 2008

Recent research on violence against civilians during wars has emphasized war-related factors over political ones. For example, factors such as control of territory or characteristics of the armed groups have been prioritized at the expense of factors such as ideological alignments or local...

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Strategic Mass Killings

Esteban, Joan; Morelli, Massimo; Rohner, Dominic - Households in Conflict Network - 2010

Since World War II there have been about fifty episodes of large-scale mass killings of civilians and massive forced displacements. They were usually meticulously planned and independent of military goals. We provide a model where conflict onset, conflict intensity and the decision to commit...

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Does Conflict affect Preferences? Results from Field Experiments in Burundi

Voors, Maarten; Nillesen, Eleonora; Verwimp, Philip; … - Households in Conflict Network - 2010

We use experimental data from 35 randomly selected communities in Burundi to examine the impact of exposure to conflict on social-, risk- and time preferences. These types of preferences are important as they determine people’s propensity to invest and their ability to overcome social...

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A Phoenix in Flames? Portfolio Choice and Violence in Civil War in rural Burundi

Nillesen, Eleonora; Verwimp, Philip - Households in Conflict Network - 2010

This paper challenges the idea that farmers revert to subsistence farming when confronted with violence from civil war. While there is an emerging macroeconomic consensus that wars are detrimental to development, we find contrasting microeconomic evidence. Using several rounds of (panel) data at...

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