How civil war affects individuals' migration decision
This project studies how civil war and especially genocide affects individuals' migration decisions. After the Rwandan genocide some 2 million people were displaced. Furthermore, thousands of exile Tutsi moved into Rwanda with the fall of the Hutu regime. This research project aim to understand how local genocide intensity shapes these individuals' re-settlement decisions and how they interact with human capital and wealth.
The research project has access to unusually detailed migration data from around 6 years after the genocide, allowing for the tracking of peoples' migration history. In addition, two sources of exogenous variation in genocide intensity that induced different types of violence which in turn had different effects on the resulting local age and gender distribution as well as local income per capita will give a detailed picture of post-genocide migration.