first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … immigrants from source countries with less gender equity. Finally, we find no evidence of sex selection for the general …

The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different … genocide in Rwanda, identifying conflict exposure of the survivors in multiple ways. The analysis finds a robust effect of … genocide on fertility, with a strong replacement effect for lost children. Having lost siblings reduces fertility only in the …

, particularly for second-generation men with children. Our findings suggest that broader cultural factors do influence the gender …There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …

The estimation of the costs of conflict is currently receiving a lot of attention in the literature. This paper aims to … give a thorough overview of the existing literature, first by addressing the history of case studies that address conflict … costs and second by looking at the existing body of cross-country analyses for conflict costs. In addition to the existing …

around five years after the end of a conflict, it declines again to pre-war levels within the end of the first post …-war period. Lagged effects of conflict and only subsequent adjustments of redistributive policies in the period of post …

We analyse the role of mass violent conflict in influencing individual expectations. We hypothesise that individuals … are likely to report negative expectations if they were exposed to conflict events in the past. We combine individual and … household level data from the Northern Uganda Livelihood Survey of 2007 with a disaggregated conflict exposure index based on …

household data with micro-level conflict data to control for endogeneity (selection of households out from camps). We find a …

aftermath of violent conflict. Our analysis is based on two sources of information: household survey data collected in northern … Uganda for households that were displaced by the civil conflict, and geo-referenced data on armed conflict events, with which … we construct our developed index of recent conflict exposure. We compare households that moved out of camps with those …