Health and civil war in rural Burundi, Vol. 1 of 1

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Health and civil war in rural Burundi

Author:	Bundervoet, Tom; Verwimp, Philip; Akresh, Richard;	Collection Title:	Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4500 Post-Conflict Transitions working paper ; no. PC 18
Country:	Burundi;	Date Stored:	2008/01/30
Document Date:	2008/01/01	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Region:	Africa
Report Number:	WPS4500	SubTopics:	Rural Poverty Reduction; Health Monitoring & Evaluation; Youth and Governance; Population Policies; Post Conflict Reconstruction
Volume No:	1 of 1

Summary: 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 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, the authors find that children exposed to the war have on average 0.515 standard deviations lower height-for-age z-scores than non-exposed children. This negative effect is robust to specifications exploiting alternative sources of exogenous variation.


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