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

focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes … in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …

from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level … reanalyze the emerging body of evidence, and weigh alternative explanations. There is some indication that war violence …, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus while war has many negative legacies for individuals and …

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

War can have long-lasting effects on individual mental health through war trauma. In this paper, we explore the impact … causality issues are addressed using objective measures of war intensity recorded at the municipality level.We find that … individuals experiencing war trauma have worse mental health six years after the end of the conflict. In particular, instrumental …

While descriptive evidence suggests that deployment in the Global War on Terrorism is associated with adverse mental …

used extensively during the U.S.-Vietnam war in the 1960-70s. Using a nationally representative health survey and an … Vietnamese civilians located in a commune one-standard-deviation more exposed to herbicide during the war were 19.75 percent more …

war on women's employment decisions. Results indicate that as a result of the Maoist-led insurgency, women's employment … probabilities were substantially higher in 2001 and 2006 relative to the outbreak of war in 1996. These employment results also hold …