TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bundervoet, Tom
PY  - 2008
DA  - 2008//
TI  - Health And Civil War In Rural Burundi
PB  - The World Bank
CY  - Washington, D.C
KW  - Child development
KW  - Child labor
KW  - Children and Youth
KW  - Conflict
KW  - Conflict and Development
KW  - Economic shocks
KW  - Health Monitoring and Evaluation
KW  - Health, Nutrition and Population
KW  - Household survey
KW  - Income
KW  - Malnutrition
KW  - Post Conflict Reconstruction
KW  - Poverty Reduction
KW  - Rural
KW  - Rural Development
KW  - Rural Poverty Reduction
KW  - Violence
KW  - War
KW  - Youth and Government
AB  - 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
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/content/workingpaper/10.1596/1813-9450-4500
LA  - English
N1  - Bundervoet, Tom
ID  - 724228179
ER  -