Effect of forced displacement on health

Ivan Zilic ()

No 1503, Working Papers from The Institute of Economics, Zagreb

Abstract: This paper analyzes health consequences of forced civilian displacement that occurred during the war in Croatia 1991-1995 which accompanied the demise of Yugoslavia. Using the Croatian Adult Health Survey 2003 we test whether displacement is relevant in explaining various dimensions of measured and self-assessed health. We adopt an instrumental variable approach where civilian casualties per county are used as an instrument for displacement. We find robust significant adverse effects on self-assessed health, on probability of suffering from systolic and diastolic hypertension, and on mental health and role emotional SF-36 dimensions. We also address possible channels of adverse effect, and find that displacement did not induce a change in healthy behaviors, and that the negative effect of displacement is channeled through adverse economic conditions that the displaced individuals face.

Keywords: conflict; migration; health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 O12 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2015-09
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Journal Article: Effect of forced displacement on health (2018)
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