Violent Conflict and Vaccinations: Evidence from Iraq

George Naufal, Michael Malcolm () and Vidya Diwakar ()
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Michael Malcolm: West Chester University
Vidya Diwakar: Overseas Development Institute

No 1438, Working Papers from Economic Research Forum

Abstract: Using a generalized difference-in-differences approach, we find that children residing in highconflict areas in Iraq are more likely to be vaccinated against tuberculosis and measles than children residing in low-conflict areas. We draw household data on vaccination from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys and we identify high-conflict area-years using geolocational conflict data from the Iraq Body Count project. While previous literature generally finds that conflict harms public health, a potential explanation for our result is heavy presence of international aid organizations in conflict areas, a phenomenon which researchers have noted in other contexts.

Pages: 22
Date: 2020-12-20, Revised 2020-12-20
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