Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/148257 
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Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper, CD-Lab Aging, Health and the Labor Market, Johannes Kepler University No. 1508
Publisher: 
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Christian Doppler Laboratory Aging, Health and the Labor Market, Linz
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes health consequences of forced civilian displacement that occurred during the war in Croatia 1991-1995 which accompanied the demise of Yugoslavia. Using the Croatian Adult Health Survey 2003 we test whether displacement is relevant in explaining various dimensions of measured and self-assessed health. We adopt an instrumental variable approach where civilian casualties per county are used as an instrument for displacement. We find robust significant adverse effects on self-assessed health, on probability of suffering from systolic and diastolic hypertension, and on mental health and role emotional SF-36 dimensions. We also address possible channels of adverse effect, and find that displacement did not induce a change in healthy behaviors, and that the negative effect of displacement is channeled through adverse economic conditions that the displaced individuals face.
Subjects: 
conflict
migration
health
JEL: 
I10
O12
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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