The Hidden Costs of War: Exposure to Armed Conflict and Birth Outcomes
Research suggests that prenatal exposure to environmental stressors has negative effects after birth. However, capturing causal effects is difficult because exposed women may be selected on unobserved factors. We use the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah war as a natural experiment and a siblings fixed-effects...
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| Language: | English |
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Society for Sociological Science
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Sociological Science |
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| Online Access: | https://www.sociologicalscience.com/articles-v2-27-558/ |