Violent conflict and the child quantity-quality tradeoff

Arbeitspapier

We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent negative consequences for the quality of the current and previous cohorts. Our empirical evidence is based on Nepal, which experienced a ten year long civil conflict of varying intensity. We exploit that villages affected by the conflict had the same trend in fertility as non-affected villages prior to the onset of conflict and employ a difference-in-differences estimator. We find that women in affected villages increased their actual and desired fertility during the conflict by 22 percent, while child height-for-age declined by 11 to 13 percent. Supporting evidence suggests that the temporary fertility increase was the main pathway leading to reduced child height, as opposed to direct impacts of the conflict.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper ; No. 1815

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions ; National Security and War ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Economic Development: General ; Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
• Thema: Conflict ; violence ; quantity-quality model of fertility ; height-for-age ; Nepal

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Nepal, Apsara Karki ; Halla, Martin ; Stillman, Steven
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Economics
• (wo): Linz
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/207110
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ