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Title:Economic Mobility in Rural Rwanda: A Study of the Effects of War and Genocide at the Household Level
Authors:Verpoorten, MarijkeISNI
Berlage, Lode
Year:2007
Periodical:Journal of African Economies
Volume:16
Issue:3
Pages:349-392
Language:English
Geographic term:Rwanda
Subjects:household income
rural households
civil wars
Economics and Trade
History and Exploration
External link:https://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/3/349.full.pdf
Abstract:This paper examines welfare gains and losses in a sample of 188 rural households in two provinces in Rwanda - Gikongoro and Gitarama - over the time span 1990-2002, a period of extreme and widespread violence. Using an economic mobility analysis, the paper identifies the impact of the shocks of the war, the genocide and their aftermath on long-term household welfare. To measure economic mobility between 1990 and 2002, it uses both net income per adult equivalent and an asset index. The results show that the income level of households experiencing the murder or imprisonment of one of their members moved considerably downwards. However, households affected by other war-related shocks such as the number of months taken refuge and the loss of physical capital were not worse off in 2002 compared with other households. This finding should be qualified in three ways. First, the violent events of the 1990s resulted in the extinction of a substantial number of households. Secondly, the used panel data set covers only two provinces and two years. Finally, although care was taken to correct for attrition and endogeneity bias, such bias cannot be entirely ruled out. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited]
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