Do girls pay the price of civil war? Violence and infant mortality in Congo

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dc.creatorDagnelie, Olivier
dc.creatorDe Luca, Giacomo
dc.creatorMaystadt, Jean-François
dc.date2014
dc.date2024-08-01T02:56:45Z
dc.date2024-08-01T02:56:45Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T14:56:25Z
dc.descriptionThis paper documents the impact of the violent civil war affecting the Democratic Republic of Congo in the period 1997–2004 on infant mortality. It adopts an instrumental variable approach to correct for the nonrandom timing and location of conflict events using mineral price index variations by district, taking account of the mineral locations and prices, as instrument. Strong and robust evidence, including mother fixed effects regressions comparing siblings, shows that conflict significantly increases girl mortality. The paper also examines the mechanisms explaining this phenomenon, with a focus on disentangling the behavioral from the biological factors. The analysis suggests that gender imbalances in infant mortality are driven by the selection induced by a higher vulnerability of boys in utero rather than by gender discrimination.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/151341
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/90014
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/151138
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/153812
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/151432
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceDagnelie, Olivier; De Luca, Giacomo and Maystadt, Jean-François. 2014. Do girls pay the price of civil war? Violence and infant mortality in Congo. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1374. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151341
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectchildren
dc.subjectcivil conflict
dc.subjectconflicts
dc.titleDo girls pay the price of civil war? Violence and infant mortality in Congo
dc.typeWorking Paper

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