Open AccessChild Health and Conflict in Côte d'Ivoire
Author(s) -
Camelia Minoiu,
Olga Shemyakina
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the american economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 16.936
H-Index - 297
eISSN - 1944-7981
pISSN - 0002-8282
DOI - 10.1257/aer.102.3.294
Subject(s) - cote d ivoire , civil conflict , spanish civil war , armed conflict , child health , demographic economics , displacement (psychology) , psychology , occupational safety and health , survey data collection , socioeconomics , suicide prevention , political science , poison control , development economics , demography , economics , environmental health , medicine , sociology , humanities , pediatrics , philosophy , law , psychotherapist , statistics , mathematics
We examine the impact of the 2002-07 civil conflict in Cote d'Ivoire on children's health status measured by height-for-age. We use pre- and post-war survey data coupled with information on the location of violent incidents to capture exposure to the conflict of children born during 1997-2007. Our results indicate that children from regions more affected by the conflict suffered significant health setbacks compared with children from less affected regions. Further, household-level victimization -- such as war-related economic stress, health stress, and displacement -- has a large and negative effect on child health in conflict-affected regions.
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