Using a generalized difference-in-differences approach, we find that children residing in high conflict areas in Iraq are more likely to be vaccinated against tuberculosis and measles than children residing in low-conflict areas. We draw household data on vaccination from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys and we identify high-conflict area-years using geolocational conflict data from the Iraq Body Count project. While previous literature generally finds that conflict harms public health, a potential explanation for our result is heavy presence of international aid organizations in conflict areas, a phenomenon which researchers have noted in other contexts.
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Georges Naufal
Associate Research Scientist, Public Policy Research Institute,...
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Michael Malcolm
Associate Professor of economics at West Chester...
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Vidya Diwakar
Researcher in the Chronic Poverty Advisory NetworK