Conflict, Educational Attainment and Structural Transformation: La Violencia in Colombia

Leopoldo Fergusson, Ana Ibáñez and Juan Riano

No 13880, Documentos CEDE from Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE

Abstract: We examine the long-term impact of violence on educational attainment, with evidence from Colombia's La Violencia. Individuals exposed to violence during, and especially before, their schooling years experience a significant and economically meaningful decrease in years of schooling. This impact has consequences beyond human capital accumulation: exposed cohorts engage in activities with less human capital content. Violence thus influenced aggregate development - particularly the process of structural transformation, in which some sectors gain prominence as income increases. The effects result not so much from the direct destruction of physical infrastructure, but from a effected households' responses to the hardships of conflict.

Keywords: Civil Conflict; Human Capital; Structural Transformation; Development. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D74 D78 I21 I24 O10 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57
Date: 2015-10-15
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Journal Article: Conflict, Educational Attainment, and Structural Transformation: La Violencia in Colombia (2020)
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