SARAH BRIDGES SARAH.BRIDGES@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor
Early Childhood Health During Conflict: The Legacy of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Northern Uganda*
Bridges, Sarah; Scott, Douglas
Authors
Douglas Scott
Abstract
This paper finds evidence of severe health deficits among young children who were exposed to the Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency in Northern Uganda (1987–2007). We employ a difference-in-differences approach to estimate a 0.74 standard deviation deficit in height-for-age z-scores among children exposed to the fighting for a period of more than 9 months. Extending our analysis, we use a mediation model to investigate the transmission mechanisms through which the war may have affected childhood nutrition. We find support for the hypothesis that deficits occurred partly through changes in the frequency at which younger children received solid or semi-solid foods.
Citation
Bridges, S., & Scott, D. (2021). Early Childhood Health During Conflict: The Legacy of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Northern Uganda*. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 84(4), 694-718. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12480
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Dec 1, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Dec 19, 2021 |
Publication Date | Dec 19, 2021 |
Deposit Date | May 12, 2022 |
Journal | Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics |
Print ISSN | 0305-9049 |
Electronic ISSN | 1468-0084 |
Publisher | Wiley |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 84 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 694-718 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12480 |
Keywords | Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Economics and Econometrics, Social Sciences (miscellaneous), Statistics and Probability |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/8047628 |
Publisher URL | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/obes.12480 |
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