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...
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2008/01/01
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS4500
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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Health and civil war in rural Burundi
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height for age
Citation
Bundervoet,Tom; Verwimp,Philip; Akresh,Richard.
Health and civil war in rural Burundi (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4500|Post-Conflict Transitions working paper ; no. PC 18 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/244041468014948158