Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi

Autor/inn/en	Bundervoet, Tom; Verwimp, Philip; Akresh, Richard
Titel	Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi
Quelle	In: Journal of Human Resources, 44 (2009) 2, S.536-563 (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-166X
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; War; Child Health; Young Children; Rural Areas; Nutrition; Body Height; Time; Geographic Location; African Culture; National Surveys; Burundi + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Krieg; Frühe Kindheit; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Ernährung; Körpergröße; Zeit; Africa; Culture; Afrika; Kultur
Abstract	We combine 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 the war's timing across provinces and the exposure of children's birth cohorts to the fighting. After controlling for province of residence, birth cohort, individual and household characteristics, and province-specific time trends, we find an additional month of war exposure decreases children's height for age z-scores by 0.047 standard deviations compared to nonexposed children. The effect is robust to specifications exploiting alternative sources of exogenous variation. (Contains 6 tables, 3 figures and 30 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10