We examine the long-term impact of violence on educational attainment, with evidence from Colombia’s La Violencia, a period of intense political violence in the mid-twentieth century. We find that individuals exposed to violence during and especially before their schooling years experience a significant and economically meaningful decrease in years of schooling. Exploring consequences beyond human capital accumulation, we show that exposed cohorts also engage in economic sectors that typically employ less qualified labor and are less likely to transition to jobs in manufacturing and services (relative to agriculture). Violence thus appears to place obstacles in the process of transitioning to more modern sectors, potentially affecting the structural transformation that may occur as income increases.

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冲突、教育成就和结构转型：哥伦比亚的暴力事件

我们研究了暴力对受教育程度的长期影响，证据来自哥伦比亚的暴力事件，这是 20 世纪中叶激烈的政治暴力时期。我们发现，在上学期间，尤其是在上学之前遭受暴力的个人，其上学年数显着且具有经济意义。探索人力资本积累之外的后果，我们表明，暴露的群体也从事经济部门，这些部门通常雇用较少合格的劳动力，并且不太可能过渡到制造业和服务业（相对于农业）。因此，暴力似乎在向更现代化的部门过渡的过程中设置了障碍，可能会影响随着收入增加而可能发生的结构转型。