The Intergenerational Effect of Cambodia's Genocide on Children's Education and Health

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ID4120442
AutoresAsad Islam (0000-0002-0928-0454), Asadul Islam (0000-0001-9510-1178), Chandarany Ouch, Russell Smyth (0000-0001-6593-5462), Liang Choon Wang (0000-0001-5723-9053)
Ano2017
Volume43
Fascículo2
Páginas331-353
Data de publicação2017-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPopulation and Development Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/padr.12047
OpenAlexW2606706576
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas11

We investigate the intergenerational impact of conflict on the educational and health outcomes of children born years after the conflict ended by exploiting geographical variation in the intensity of the genocide that occurred during the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime in Cambodia. We find that children of individuals who were of prime marriage age during the genocide and experienced greater intensity of genocide have worse educational and health outcomes. In particular, for each standard deviation increase in the intensity of the genocide, average children's normal grade progression rate decreases by 0.03 standard deviations and average children's height-for- age Z-score decreases by 0.06 standard deviations. We examine several channels through which genocide could affect children born to survivors after the conflict and find suggestive evidence that the marriage market acts as a channel that transmits the adverse impact of conflict across generations. Our findings are robust to alternative measures of mortality rates and post-KR internal migration

Affect (linguistics) · Demographic economics · Economics · Genocide · Political science · Sociology · Demography · Global Health Care Issues · Global Maternal and Child Health · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Psychology