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Civil War, Crop Failure, and Child Stunting in Rwanda / Bundervoet, Tom
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Bundervoet, Tom
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adolescent Health.
- Age.
- Boys.
- Child Health.
- Children.
- Children and Youth.
- Civil Conflict.
- Civil War.
- Conflict and Development.
- Early Childhood.
- Education.
- Educational Sciences.
- Health Monitoring and Evaluation.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Household Level.
- Infant.
- Information Systems.
- Policy.
- Policy Makers.
- Policy Research.
- Policy Research Working Paper.
- Poor Households.
- Population Policies.
- Post Conflict Reconstruction.
- Poverty.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Practitioners.
- Primary Education.
- Progress.
- Rural Development.
- Rural Poverty Reduction.
- State University.
- Street Children.
- Urban Development.
- Youth and Government.
- Local Subjects:
- Adolescent Health.
- Age.
- Boys.
- Child Health.
- Children.
- Children and Youth.
- Civil Conflict.
- Civil War.
- Conflict and Development.
- Early Childhood.
- Education.
- Educational Sciences.
- Health Monitoring and Evaluation.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Household Level.
- Infant.
- Information Systems.
- Policy.
- Policy Makers.
- Policy Research.
- Policy Research Working Paper.
- Poor Households.
- Population Policies.
- Post Conflict Reconstruction.
- Poverty.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Practitioners.
- Primary Education.
- Progress.
- Rural Development.
- Rural Poverty Reduction.
- State University.
- Street Children.
- Urban Development.
- Youth and Government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (34 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2007
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Economic shocks at birth have lasting effects on children's health several years after the shock. The authors calculate height for age z-scores for children under age five using data from a Rwandan nationally representative household survey conducted in 1992. They exploit district and time variation in crop failure and civil conflict to measure the impact of exogenous shocks that children experience at birth on their height several years later. They find that boys and girls born after the shock in regions experiencing civil conflict are both negatively affected with height for age z-scores 0.30 and 0.72 standard deviations lower, respectively. Conversely, only girls are negatively affected by crop failure, with these girls exhibiting 0.41 standard deviation lower height for age z-scores and the impact is worse for girls in poor households. Results are robust to using sibling difference estimators, household level production, and rainfall shocks as alternative measures of crop failure.
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