Armed Conflict and Schooling: Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide combines two cross-sectional household surveys collected before and after the genocide. The dataset likely contains variables for province-level intensity of killings, children's cohort exposure, and educational attainment. It was created by Richard Akresh of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Use Cases
- Model the negative impact of genocide on educational attainment based on province-level variation in killings.
- Analyze cohort-specific exposure effects on schooling based on children's age during the war.
- Control for baseline schooling trends using pre-war data mentioned in the description.
- Test robustness of conflict impact findings using alternative genocide intensity sources.
Strengths
- Analysis shows a strong negative impact, with exposed children completing one-half year less education.
- The effect represents an 18.3 percent decline in education completion.
- The findings are robust to control variables, alternative intensity sources, and an instrumental variables strategy.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Collection Method
- Combined two cross-sectional household surveys collected before and after the 1994 genocide.
- Time Range
- Periods before and after 1994.
- Geography
- Rwanda, with variation across provinces.