Conflict and Children s Health A study on Palestinian children living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Abstract

Civil wars do not only generate high death tolls, but also significantly affect the general population at large. Studies show that the effect of conflict on health is particularly large in civil wars and pertains over time. This paper uses an independently pooled cross sectional method to measure the effect of conflict on children s health in Palestine. Overall, my analysis suggests that conflict has a negative impact on the health of children living in the affected areas; my results show that an increase in average deaths of 1000 over the lifetime of a child increases the chances of being stunted by 10 %.