Armed conflict and birth weight: Evidence from the al-Aqsa Intifada

Mansour, Hani; Rees, Daniel I.

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2011.12.005

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“…This is in line with findings elsewhere in the literature that stress induced by extreme events matters mostly during the first trimester of gestation (Camacho, 2008;Torche, 2011;Mansour and Rees, 2012).…”

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The Effect of Violence on Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Homicides in Rural Brazil

Koppensteiner

Manacorda

2013

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The unauthorized commercial use of Bank documents is prohibited and may be punishable under the Bank's policies and/or applicable laws. Terms of use: Documents in Copyright ©Inter-American Development Bank. This working paper may be reproduced for any non-commercial purpose. It may also be reproduced in any academic journal indexed by the American Economic Association's EconLit, with previous consent by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), provided that the IDB is credited and that the author(s) receive no income from the publication. This paper uses microdata from Brazilian vital statistics natality and mortality data between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence-measured by homicide rates-on birth outcomes. Focusing on small communities, where it is more plausible that local homicide rates reflect actual exposure to violence, the analysis shows that exposure to violence during pregnancy leads to deterioration in birth outcomes: one extra homicide during the first trimester of pregnancy increases the probability of low birthweight by around 6 percent. Results are particularly pronounced among children of poorly educated mothers, implying that violence compounds the disadvantage that these children already suffer as a result of their households' lower socioeconomic status. Cataloging-in-PublicationJEL classifications: I12, I14, J13, J88

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The Effect of Violence on Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Homicides in Rural Brazil

Koppensteiner

Manacorda

2013

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“…Both Camacho (2008) and Mansour & Rees (2012) find that conflict events have a negative effect on birth weight when experienced during the first-trimester and, in some specifications, Mansour & Rees (2012) find a negative effect of exposure during the third trimester, but this is not the case here. In a regression similar to the within-mother specification in Panel A of Table 6 (Column (5)) where pre dt and inU tero dt are replaced by three in utero conflict exposure corresponding to mean monthly exposure during the three trimesters defined as in Mansour & Rees (2012) (mc + 1 to mc + 3, mc + 4 to mc + 6, and mc + 7 to mc + 9), the effect of exposure to conflict during the first two trimesters on the probability of small size at birth is negative (i.e., more conflict is associated with larger size at birth), and statistically significant in the first and second trimester, while the effect of exposure during the third trimester is positive but statistically insignificant.…”

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“…Camacho (2008) found that, in Colombia, landmine explosions taking place in the mother's municipality during the first trimester of pregnancy had a small negative impact on birth weight. Mansour & Rees (2012) similarly found that firsttrimester conflict casualties increased the probability of low birth weight 7 Somewhat surprisingly, a literature documenting an increase in the sex-ratio following the two World Wars has developed in parallel to that on the TW hypothesis (see Grant (2009) for a review). Grant (2009) proposes an explanation reconciling the findings for the two World Wars with the literature finding the reverse effect of prenatal stressors, including wars, on the secondary sex ratio.…”

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Civil conflict, gender-specific fetal loss, and selection: A new test of the Trivers–Willard hypothesis

Valente

2015

Journal of Health Economics

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A sizeable economics literature explores the effect of prenatal shocks on later health or socioeconomic status. Work in other disciplines, following the seminal contribution of Trivers & Willard (1973), suggests that prenatal shocks may increase fetal loss and reduce the number of boys relative to girls at birth. This has been largely ignored in the economics literature and could affect the interpretation of estimates of the effect of prenatal shocks and that of gender in other applied economics contexts. This paper analyzes the effect of in utero exposure to a shock -civil conflict in Nepal -on (i) fetal loss, and (ii) gender and (iii) health at birth. Maternal fixed effects estimates show that exposed pregnancies are more likely to result in a miscarriage and in a female birth, but exposed newborns are neither smaller nor more subject to neonatal mortality.JEL codes: I10, J13, O15

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“…Our study contributes to the growing literature on the effects of armed conflict on the welfare of populations, with a number of recent studies exploring the link between conflict exposure and child health (e.g., Akresh, Verwimp, and Bundervoet, 2011;Bundervoet, Verwimp and Akresh, 2009;Mansour and Rees, forthcoming;Minoiu and Shemyakina, 2012), labor market (Blattman and Annan, 2010;Kondylis, 2010) and education (Akresh and de Walque, 2010;Shemyakina, 2011;Swee, 2011). It is more specifically related to recent work on the effects of the 1992-1995 war in BiH on individual outcomes.…”

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Subjective Well-Being and Armed Conflict: Evidence from Bosnia-Herzegovina

Shemyakina

Plagnol

2012

Soc Indic Res

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent AbstractWe analyze survey data from Bosnia and Herzegovina collected after the 1992-1995 Bosnian War to answer the following questions: How does individual subjective well-being evolve in the post-conflict period? Does exposure to conflict have an important role in determining one's postwar experiences? Our identification strategy relies on regional and individual-level variation in exposure to the conflict. Individual war-related trauma has a negative, significant, and lasting impact on subjective well-being. The effect is stronger for those displaced during the war. Municipality-level conflict measures are not significantly associated with subjective well-being once municipality fixed effects are accounted for.

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Armed conflict and birth weight: Evidence from the al-Aqsa Intifada

Cited by 214 publications

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The Effect of Violence on Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Homicides in Rural Brazil

The Effect of Violence on Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Homicides in Rural Brazil

Civil conflict, gender-specific fetal loss, and selection: A new test of the Trivers–Willard hypothesis

Subjective Well-Being and Armed Conflict: Evidence from Bosnia-Herzegovina

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