Christopher Blattman|Jeannie Annan
The Consequences of Child Soldiering
Yale University|Yale University
little known impacts military service human capital labor market outcomes due absence data well sample selection recruits selfselected screened selectively survive examine case uganda rebel recruitment methods provide exogenous variation conscription economic educational impacts widespread persistent schooling falls nearly year skilled employment halves earnings drop third military service seems poor substitute schooling psychological distress evident among exposed severe war violence limited excombatants