Children of War

By Mevlude Akbulut‐Yuksel. The Journal of human resources, 2009

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This paper provides causal evidence on the long-term consequences of large-scale physical destruction on educational attainment, health status, and labor market outcomes of children. I exploit the plausibly exogenous region-by-cohort variation in the intensity of World War Two (WWII) destruction as a unique quasi-experiment. I find that exposure to destruction had long-lasting detrimental effects on the human capital formation, health, and labor market outcomes of Germans who were at school-age during WWII. An important channel for the effect of destruction on educational attainment is the destruction of schools whereas malnutrition is partly behind the estimated impact on health.

Subfields: General Health Professions

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Citations in the corpus

• Early life shocks and mental health: The long-term effect of war in Vietnam (2018, background): “Akresh et al. (2012) and Akbulut-Yuksel (2014) find that relative to children in less-affected areas, children in areas more affected by conflict have lower adult height-for-age z-scores.”
• The long-run impact of a traumatic experience on risk aversion (2014, background): “Akbulut-Yuksel (2009) shows that a large-scale physical destruction from the World War II has detrimental impacts on education attainment, health status and labor market outcomes.”