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The effect of armed conflict on accumulation of schooling: Results from Tajikistan
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The authors used differences in regional and temporal exposure to the 1992-1998 armed conflict in Tajikistan to study the effect of violent conflict on schooling outcomes and found that exposure to violent conflict had a large and statistically significant negative effect on the enrollment of girls.About:
This article is published in Journal of Development Economics.The article was published on 2011-07-01. It has received 450 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Poison control.read more
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The Consequences of Child Soldiering
TL;DR: This article examined the case of Uganda, where rebel recruitment methods provided exogenous variation in conscription and found that schooling falls by nearly a year, skilled employment halves, and earnings drop by a third.
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The Human Capital Consequences of Civil War: Evidence from Guatemala
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine data from the 2002 National Population Census and the distribution of the number of human rights violations and victims across 22 departments to examine how Guatemala's 36-year-long civil war affected human capital accumulation.
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Poverty and Violent Conflict: A Micro-Level Perspective on the Causes and Duration of Warfare:
TL;DR: In this paper, endogenous mechanisms linking processes of violent conflict and the economic well-being of individuals and households in combat areas provide valuable micro foundations for communities in conflict areas, and they are discussed in detail.
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Wars and Child Health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict
TL;DR: Household survey data from Eritrea is used to estimate the effect of exposure to the 1998-2000 Eritrea-Ethiopia war on children's health, with effects robust to including region-specific time trends, alternative conflict exposure measures, and mother fixed effects.
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Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data
TL;DR: This is the essential companion to Jeffrey Wooldridge's widely-used graduate text Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data (MIT Press, 2001).
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Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of investment in education and training on earnings and employment are discussed. But the authors focus on the relationship between age and earnings and do not explore the relation between education and fertility.
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Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of investments in human capital on an individual's potential earnings and psychic income was analyzed, taking into account varying cultures and political regimes, the research indicates that economic earnings tend to be positively correlated to education and skill level.
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Armed Conflict 1946-2001: A New Dataset
TL;DR: In the period 1946-2001, there were 225 armed conflicts and 34 of them were active in all of or part of 2001 as mentioned in this paper, and this dataset has now been backdated to the end of World War II.
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Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy
TL;DR: The authors argues that civil war is now an important issue for development and that war retards development, but conversely, development retards war, giving rise to virtuous and vicious circles.