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Civil Conflict and Human Capital Accumulation

The Long-term Effects of Political Violence in Perú

Gianmarco León
Journal of Human Resources, October 2012, 47 (4) 991-1022; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.47.4.991
Gianmarco León
Gianmarco León is an assistant professor in the department of economics and business at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. The author is very grateful for the patient guidance of Elisabeth Sadoulet. Insightful comments and suggestions by Richard Akresh, Michael Anderson, Max Auffhammer, Chris Blattman, Alain de Janvry, Oeindrila Dube, Fred Finan, Katherine Hausman, Valerie Koechlin, Jeremy Magruder, Daniel Manrique, Ted Miguel, Gerard Padro-i-Miquel, Alex Solis, Eik Swee and Di Zeng were extremely important. Participants in the AMID/BREAD/CEPR 2009 conference, NEUDC 2009, UC Berkeley Development Lunch, Universidad de Piura, and AEA 2011 annual meetings provided very valuable feedback. Additionally, four anonymous referees helped substantially to improve the first manuscript. The author claims responsibility for all remaining errors
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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.

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