Civil War, Famine and the Persistence of Human Capital: Evidence from Tajikistan

The dissolution of the Soviet Union and 1992-96 Tajik civil war resulted in huge human economic losses. Nevertheless, contemporary data suggest persistence investments capital region most affected by famine least favoured since cessation hostilities, Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast. Famine-affected women have greater stature final educational attainment, later ages at marriage lower fertility than do those neighbouring border province, Khatlon. Educational interactions between adults children under age six are much more frequent. continued emphasis on after collapse is consistent with a locational imperative for households to earn incomes outside agriculture, higher relative status non-agrarian societies.