impacts of war exposure on education. War exposed men marry later and have fewer children. War exposure of mothers (but not …

Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to … exploit exogenous variation in the conflict's geographic extent and timing and the exposure of different children's birth … sites to more accurately measure a child's war exposure. War-exposed children in both countries have lower height-for-age Z …

Burundi's civil war on children's health status. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the war's timing … across provinces and the exposure of children's birth cohorts to the fighting. After controlling for province of residence … war exposure decreases children's height for age z-scores by 0.047 standard deviations compared to non-exposed children …

Economic shocks at birth have lasting impacts on children's health several years after the shock. We calculate height … for age z-scores for children under age five using data from a Rwandan nationally representative household survey … shocks that children experience at birth on their height several years later. We find that girls born after a shock in a …