Armed Conflict and Child Labor: Evidence from Iraq

George Naufal, Michael Malcolm and Vidya Diwakar

No 1225, Working Papers from Economic Research Forum

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between armed conflict intensity and child labor using household level data from Iraq and taking advantage of a quasi-experimental setup. Armed conflict intensity is measured as the number of deaths related to conflict and child labor is separated by type of work: economic and household. After controlling for individual and household characteristics that determine child labor, we find that armed conflict intensity is associated with a higher likelihood of economic child labor, but is not associated with changes in household labor. These results provide further evidence of the long-term costs of war on households.

Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2018-09-18, Revised 2018-09-18
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