Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi

Tom Bundervoet, Philip Verwimp and Richard Akresh ()

No 2951, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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 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.

Keywords: child health; Africa; economic shocks; stunting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 J13 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2007-07
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Published - published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(2), 536-563

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