Civil Conflict and Human Capital Accumulation
研究内战暴力对人力资本积累的长期影响，发现暴露于暴力的人平均少受0.31年教育，早期暴露影响永久，短期效应强于长期。
This paper provides empirical evidence of the persistent effect of exposure to political violence on human capital accumulation. I exploit the variation in conflict location and birth cohorts to identify the long- and short-term effects of the civil war on educational attainment. Conditional on being exposed to violence, the average person accumulates 0.31 less years of education as an adult. In the short term, the effects are stronger than in the long run; these results hold when comparing children within the same household. Further, exposure to violence during early childhood leads to permanent losses. I also explore the potential causal mechanisms.