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

This 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 dis...

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Autores principales: Dagnelie, Olivier, De Luca, Giacomo, Maystadt, Jean-François
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151341

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