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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Main Authors: Verwimp, Philip, Van Bavel, Jan
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Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2015
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spelling okr-10986-235452021-04-23T14:04:15Z Schooling, Violent Conflict, and Gender in Burundi Verwimp, Philip Van Bavel, Jan bombing bombings child soldiers civil war conflicts deaths elections genocide international community massacres reconciliation reconstruction revolution violence violent conflict war 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. Depending on the specification, we find that the probability of completing primary schooling for a boy exposed to violent conflict declined by 7 to 17 percentage points compared to a nonexposed boy, with a decline of 11 percentage points in our preferred specification. We also find that exposure to violent conflict reduces the gender gap in schooling, but only for girls from nonpoor households. Forced displacement is one of the channels through which conflict affects schooling. Our results are robust to various specifications and estimation methods. 2015-12-29T21:59:48Z 2015-12-29T21:59:48Z 2014-05-27 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23545 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Burundi
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Verwimp, Philip
Van Bavel, Jan
Schooling, Violent Conflict, and Gender in Burundi
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description 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. Depending on the specification, we find that the probability of completing primary schooling for a boy exposed to violent conflict declined by 7 to 17 percentage points compared to a nonexposed boy, with a decline of 11 percentage points in our preferred specification. We also find that exposure to violent conflict reduces the gender gap in schooling, but only for girls from nonpoor households. Forced displacement is one of the channels through which conflict affects schooling. Our results are robust to various specifications and estimation methods.
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author Verwimp, Philip
Van Bavel, Jan
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title Schooling, Violent Conflict, and Gender in Burundi
title_short Schooling, Violent Conflict, and Gender in Burundi
title_full Schooling, Violent Conflict, and Gender in Burundi
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title_sort schooling, violent conflict, and gender in burundi
publisher Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate 2015
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