Tom Bundervoet|Philip Verwimp|Richard Akresh
Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi
combine household survey data event data timing location armed conflicts examine impact burundis civil war childrens health status identification strategy exploits exogenous variation wars timing across provinces exposure childrens birth cohorts fighting controlling province residence birth cohort individual household characteristics provincespecific time trends find additional month war exposure decreases childrens height age zscores 0047 standard deviations compared nonexposed children effect robust specifications exploiting alternative sources exogenous variation