Exposure to Armed Conflict and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa.

ABSTRACT: Changes in fertility patterns are hypothesized to be among the many second-order consequences of armed conflict, but expectations about the direction of such effects are theoretically ambiguous. Prior research, from a range of contexts, has also yielded inconsistent results. We contribute to this debate by using harmonized data and methods to examine the effects of exposure to conflict on preferred and observed fertility outcomes across a spatially and temporally extensive population. We use high-resolution georeferenced data from 25 sub-Saharan African countries, combining records of violent events from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) with data on fertility goals and outcomes from the Demographic and Health Surveys (n = 368,765 women aged 15-49 years). We estima

SUBMITTER: Thiede BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8141372 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature