Schooling, Violent Conflict, and Gender in Burundi

We investigate the effect of exposure to violent conflict on human capital accumulation in Burundi. We combine a nationwide household survey with secondary sources on the location and timing of the conflict. Only 20 percent of the birth cohorts studied (1971–1986) completed primary education. Depend...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Verwimp, Philip, Van Bavel, Jan
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2015
Subjects:
war
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23545