Early-life conditions and child development: Evidence from a violent conflict

This paper investigates how the exposure to violent conflicts in utero and in early and late childhood affect human capital formation. I focus on a wide range of child development outcomes, including novel cognitive and non-cognitive indicators. Using monthly and municipality-level variation in the...

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Main Author: Valentina Duque
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-12-01
Series:SSM: Population Health
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827316300891