sites to more accurately measure a child's war exposure. War-exposed children in both countries have lower height-for-age Z …This is the first paper using household survey data from two countries involved in an international war (Eritrea and …-scores, with the children in the war-instigating and losing country (Eritrea) suffering more than the winning nation (Ethiopia …

The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create … the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this … war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity and cohort, we identify significant long run impacts on human …

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

productivity by randomizing the temporal order at which piece-rate workers at a large sugarcane plantation in Nigeria are offered …

This paper estimates the causal long-term consequences of an exposure to war in utero and during childhood on the risk …

. Conflict-exposed children have lower height-for-age, and impacts using GPS information are 2-3 times larger than if exposure is …

Economic shocks at birth have lasting impacts on children's health several years after the shock. We calculate height … shocks that children experience at birth on their height several years later. We find that girls born after a shock in a … region experiencing these events exhibit 0.72 standard deviations lower height for age z-scores and the impact is worse for …

war exposure decreases children's height for age z-scores by 0.047 standard deviations compared to non-exposed children … Burundi's civil war on children's health status. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the war's timing …