used extensively during the U.S.-Vietnam war in the 1960-70s. Using a nationally representative health survey and an …This paper examines the long-term health impact of Agent Orange, a toxic military herbicide containing dioxin that was … Vietnamese civilians located in a commune one-standard-deviation more exposed to herbicide during the war were 19.75 percent more …

This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National … conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and breadth of our health outcomes. We use … significant detrimental effects on a number of morbidity measures. Hearing and mental health appear to be particularly affected. …

We evaluate the effectiveness of a post-conflict development programme on maternal health-care utilization in the … Development Facility of the United Nations Development Programme is successful in improving maternal health-care utilization … health-care utilization. The effectiveness of the programme would have been greater in the absence of conflict, although the …

Vietnam has dealt historically with health as a valuable asset, a resource that was distributed in an equal manner to … and delineates the structure and organization of the health care and health prevention delivery systems in Vietnam … all citizens through the development of a wide and inclusive grassroots health network during the 1970s. Since then, the …

Prior researchers have deployed the Vietnam-era draft lottery as an instrument to estimate causal effects of military … service on health and income. This research has shown that effects of veteran status on mortality and earnings that appeared … shortly after the war seem to have dissipated by 2000. While these are important outcomes to economists, by focusing on them …