Using data collected in rural Burkina Faso, this paper examines how children's cognitive abilities influence households …

from conflict sites - a more accurate measure of shock exposure – and compare the impact on children exposed in utero …. Conflict-exposed children have lower height-for-age, and impacts using GPS information are 2-3 times larger than if exposure is … maternal stressors are potential explanations for the negative health effects on children. …

impact of 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 … that children exposed to the war have on average 0.515 standard deviations lower height-for-age z-scores than non …

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