Intergenerational Impact of Population Shocks on Children’s Health: Evidence from the 1993-2001 Refugee Crisis in Tanzania

Soazic Elise Wang Sonne and Paolo Verme
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Soazic Elise Wang Sonne: World Bank and United Nations University-Maastricht Economics and social Research Institute and Training Center on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT)

No 319, HiCN Working Papers from Households in Conflict Network

Abstract: This paper examines how parents’ early childhood exposure to a refugee crisis impacts their children’s health status. Based on Demographic and Health Survey data from Tanzania with the migration history of mothers and fathers, the analysis exploits geographical, time, and cohort variations using shock intensity and distance from refugee camps to instrument treatment. The findings show that children who were born to parents who were living closer to refugee camps during their early childhood have lower height for their age and are more likely to be stunted. The results are robust to alternative functional forms of the distance from camps, alternative specifications of the treatment and control groups, alternative cohorts of mothers, and several placebo tests.

Keywords: Early childhood development; refugees; forced displacement, health outcomes, children (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 O10 O12 O13 O15 R12 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-12
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