The Long-term Effects of Violent Conflict on Women’s Intra-Household Decision-Making Power

This paper examines the long-term effects of early-life exposure to the Nigerian Civil War on women’s decision-making power within the household,
using data from the 2008 Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey.
To identify the effects, the authors adopt a difference-in-differences approach
which exploits variation in exposure to the civil war by year of birth and ethnicity.
The results show that early-life exposure to the war decreases the likelihood of women’s decision-making power within the household in adulthood.
Likely mechanisms include different fertility and marriage choices as well as poorer education, health, and employment outcomes
as a result of exposure to the war, which would place women in a more precarious position in the household relative to their partners.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348983535_The_Long-term_Effects_of_Violent_Conflict_on_Women’s_Intra-Household_Decision-Making_Power

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