Education and Civil Conflict in Nepal

On war intensity and schooling attainment: The case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

“…3 More importantly, given the availability of a rich set of supplementary data on the Bosnian War -including individual-level physical and mental health, and municipality-level war damages, repairs, and wartime displacement -this paper improves upon the existing literature by examining a suite of possible mechanisms through 1 According to Collier, Hoeffler, and Rohner (2009), who use data from the Correlates of War Project (Singer and Small, 1994;Gleditsch, 2004), there were 84 civil wars across the globe which involved more than 50 countries in the period 1965-2004. 2 For example, see Akresh and de Walque (2008), Chamarbagwala and Morán (2011), Merrouche (2011), Shemyakina (2011, León (2012), Rodriguez and Sanchez (2012), Valente (2013), Akbulut-Yuksel (2014), and Pivovarova and Swee (2015) on schooling, Bundervoet, Verwimp, and Akresh (2008), Akresh, Verwimp, and Bundervoet (2011), and Grimard and Laszlo (2014) on child health, and Kondylis (2010), Kecmanovic (2012), and Menon and Rodgers (2013) on employment. 3 Kondylis (2010) adopts a similar approach by using the Bosnian war casualty data to construct a measure of conflict severity.…”