An Economic Profile of Peasant Perpetrators of Genocide Micro-level Evidence from Rwanda

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Civil War, Crop Failure, and Child Stunting in Rwanda (2007, unknown): “Similarly, Verwimp (2005) did not find systematic differences between the two ethnic groups in income per adult equivalent, land size, or livestock holdings in several southern provinces.”
War and poverty (2010, unknown): “9 One exception is Verwimp (2005).”
The microeconomics of violent conflict (2019, background): “While there is an association between violent conflict and low-income countries, largely for reasons to do with weak institutions, there is almost no evidence of a concentration of perpetrators of violence among the poor (Verwimp, 2005, Krueger, 2007).”
War and local collective action in Sierra Leone (2009, background): “12 Verwimp (2005) documents a systematic relationship between socioeconomic status and being a perpetrator of violence in the Rwanda genocide.”
Poverty and Violent Conflict: A Micro-Level Perspective on the Causes and Duration of Warfare (2009, unknown): “During violent conflicts, assets such as houses, land, labour, utensils, cattle and livestock get lost or destroyed through heavy fighting and looting (Bundervoet & Verwimp, 2005; Ibáñez & Moya, 2006; Shemyakina, 2006; Verpoorten, 2003).”