The Long-Run Labor-Market Consequences of Civil War

Evidence from the Shining Path in Peru

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4361216
AutoresJose Galdo (0000-0003-3429-6703, Carleton University, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume61
Fascículo4
Páginas789-823
Data de publicação2013-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEconomic Development and Cultural Change (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0013-0079 • E-ISSN: 1539-2988
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/670379
OpenAlexW2232739536
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas47

This study exploits district-level variation in the timing and intensity of civil war violence to investigate whether early life exposure to civil wars affects labor-market outcomes later in life. In particular, we examine the impacts of armed conflict in Peru, a country that experienced the actions of a tenacious, brutally effective war machine, the Shining Path, between 1980 and 1995. This study finds that the most sensitive period to early life exposure to civil war violence is the first 36 months of life. A 1 standard deviation increase in civil war exposure leads to a 5% fall in adult monthly earnings, 3.5% reduction in the probability of working in formal jobs, and 6% reduction in the probability of working in large firms. Substantial heterogeneity in the earnings impacts emerges when considering variation in the type of civil war violence. Overall, forced disappearances emerge as the most hurtful measure of violence in the long run. Sexual violations disproportionately affected the wages of women, while torture and forced disappearances disproportionately affected the wages of men. Evidence on intervening pathways suggests that short-run health along with schooling and household wealth are important channels in connecting early life exposure to civil war and adult earnings

Demographic economics · Earnings · Economics · Human rights · Labour economics · Political science · Spanish Civil War · Torture · Agricultural risk and resilience · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare