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SUBMITTER: Duque V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5769021 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
SSM - population health 20161020
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 timing and severity of massacres in Colombia from 1999 to 2007, I show that children exposed to terrorist attacks in utero and in childhood achieve lower height-for-age (0.09 SD) and cognitive outcome ...[more]