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TY - UNPB
T1 - Do girls pay the price of civil war?
T2 - violence and infant mortality in Congo
AU - Dagnelie, Olivier
AU - De Luca, Giacomo
AU - Maystadt, Jean-Francois
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This paper documents the impact of civil wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo on infant mortality between 1997 and 2004. It adopts an instrumental variable approach to correct for the non-random timing and location of conflict. Strong and robust evidence, including mother fixed effects regressions, shows that conflict significantly increases girl mortality. It also examines the mechanisms explaining this phenomenon, with a focus on disentangling the behavioral from the biological factors. The analysis suggests that gender imbalances in infant mortality are driven by the selection induced by a higher vulnerability of boys in utero rather than by gender discrimination.
AB - This paper documents the impact of civil wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo on infant mortality between 1997 and 2004. It adopts an instrumental variable approach to correct for the non-random timing and location of conflict. Strong and robust evidence, including mother fixed effects regressions, shows that conflict significantly increases girl mortality. It also examines the mechanisms explaining this phenomenon, with a focus on disentangling the behavioral from the biological factors. The analysis suggests that gender imbalances in infant mortality are driven by the selection induced by a higher vulnerability of boys in utero rather than by gender discrimination.
KW - Civil war
KW - infant mortality
KW - gender discrimination
M3 - Working paper
T3 - Economics Working Paper Series
BT - Do girls pay the price of civil war?
PB - Lancaster University, Department of Economics
CY - Lancaster
ER -