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Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi : Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi

This paper combines household survey data with event data on the timing and location of armed conflicts to examine the impact of Burundi's civil war on children's health status. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in...

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Main Authors:	Bundervoet, Tom, Verwimp, Philip, Akresh, Richard
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ADULT HEALTH AGE DISTRIBUTION AGED ARMED CONFLICT ARMED CONFLICTS BOMBING CHILD DEVELOPMENT CHILD HEALTH CHILD LABOR CHRONIC MALNUTRITION CIVIL CONFLICT CIVIL WAR CIVIL WARS CONFLICT CONFLICT RESEARCH COUNTERPARTS DEATHS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DISABILITY EARLY CHILDHOOD EARLY PREGNANCY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC SHOCKS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT ELECTIONS FAMINE FEMALE CHILDREN FIGHTING GENERATION OF CHILDREN GENOCIDE GUERRILLA HEALTH IMPACT HEALTH INDICATORS HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH SYSTEMS HOUSEHOLD CONTROLS HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HUMAN GROWTH IMPACT OF CONFLICT IMPACT ON CHILDREN INCOME INFECTIOUS DISEASES INFLUENZA INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY MALNUTRITION MARITAL STATUS MASSACRE MASSACRES MINORITY NATIONS NEGOTIATIONS NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUMBER OF PEOPLE NUTRITIONAL STATUS OBESITY OLD AGE PANDEMIC PEACE PENSIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POOR HEALTH POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY HEADCOUNT RATES POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY LINE POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER POVERTY STATUS PREGNANCY PROGRESS PUBLIC POLICY REBEL RECONSTRUCTION RURAL RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL PROVINCES SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS STRUCTURAL REFORMS TELEVISION VIOLENCE VIOLENT CONFLICT WAR WARFARE WARS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION YOUNG CHILDREN
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/01/8977943/health-civil-war-rural-burundi-health-civil-war-rural-burundi http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6394