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We analyze long-term impacts of the 1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War, providing the first evidence of intergenerational impacts. Women exposed to the war in their growing years exhibit reduced adult stature, increased likelihood of being overweight, earlier age at first birth, and lower educational...
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We estimate the impact of exposure to conflict on health outcomes using geographic information on households' distance … from conflict sites - a more accurate measure of shock exposure – and compare the impact on children exposed in utero … versus after birth. The identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in the conflict's geographic extent and timing …
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, which experienced a ten year long civil conflict of varying intensity. Our difference-in-differences analysis shows that … women in villages affected by civil conflict increased their actual and desired fertility during the conflict by 22 percent … was the main pathway leading to reduced child height, as opposed to direct impacts of the conflict. This likely occurred …
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A considerable body of empirical evidence indicates that conflict affects reproductive behaviour, often resulting in an … about the effect of peace in a post-conflict setting. This study explores how the external provision of security affects …
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We investigate the long-term effects of households' exposure to violent conflict on children's educational attainment … exploits the locality-level variation in the intensity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West Bank during the Second … Intifada (2000–2005). We show that an increase in family experience of conflict has large negative long-term effects on the …
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There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
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This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
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in Bolivia to study the intra-household income allocation process towards children's educational expenditure by ethnicity … ethnicity) count in the decision making process of human capital investments. In particular, the allocation of resources within …
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A common perception about immigrant assimilation is that association with natives necessarily speeds the process by which immigrants become indistinguishable from natives. Using 2000 Census data, this paper casts doubt on this presumption by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a...
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We investigate the racial gap in test scores between black and white students in Britain both in levels and differences across the school years. We find that there is an increasing racial gap in test scores between ages 7 and 11, and a decreasing one between ages 11 and 16. Using the richness of...
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