Important gaps remain in the understanding of the economic consequences of civil war. Focusing on the conflict in … Rwanda in the early 90s, and using micro data to carry out econometric analysis, this paper finds that households and …. Distinguishing between civil war and genocide, the findings also provide evidence that these returns, and by implication the process …

Between April and July 1994 Rwanda experienced a tremendous wave of inter-ethnic violence that caused at least 500 …,000 deaths. Combining birth history data drawn from the 2000 Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey with prefecture …-level information on the intensity of the conflict, we examine the impact of the civil war on infant and child mortality. War exposure …

of cooperation during war, we find that individual cooperativeness robustly increases with the length of time a person …

timber have been linked to civil war. On the other hand, these resources may also provide one of the few reliable sources of …

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 …

This study exploits district-level variation in the timing and intensity of civil war violence to investigate whether … armed conflict in Peru, a country that experienced the actions of a tenacious, brutally effective war machine, the Shining … Path, between 1980 and 1995. This study finds that the most sensitive period to early-life exposure to civil war violence …

The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create … the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this … war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity and cohort, we identify significant long run impacts on human …