Women and children bear substantial morbidity and mortality as a result of armed conflicts.
This Series paper focuses on the direct (due to violence) and indirect health effects of armed …

Background Young women in conflict-affected regions are at risk of a number of adverse
outcomes as a result of violence, economic deterioration and the breakdown of community …

Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population
dynamics. We investigate the fertility response to an unanticipated mortality shock that …

Abstract In late 2015, the Brazilian Ministry of Health and the Pan American Health
Organization classified the increase in congenital malformations associated with the Zika …

Recent studies have found significant excess mortality in women during and immediately
after armed conflicts. This article directly assesses one of the most likely explanations …

Background The population effects of armed conflict on non-combatant vulnerable
populations are incompletely understood. We aimed to study the effects of conflict on …

This paper examines the long-term effects of exposure to civil war and genocide on the
educational attainment, earnings, and fertility of individuals in Cambodia. Given the well …

Our study analyzes the fertility effects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. We study the effects
of violence on both the duration time to the first birth in the early post-genocide period and …

A sizeable economics literature explores the effect of prenatal shocks on later health or
socioeconomic status. Work in other disciplines, following the seminal contribution of Trivers …

What are the consequences of a severe health shock like an influenza pandemic on fertility?
Using rich administrative data and a difference-in-differences approach, we evaluate fertility …