Subjective Well-Being and Armed Conflict: Evidence from Bosnia-Herzegovina
| Title: | Subjective Well-Being and Armed Conflict: Evidence from Bosnia-Herzegovina |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Publication Date: | September 2013 |
| Published In: | Social Indicators Research |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Description: | We analyze survey data from Bosnia and Herzegovina collected after the 1992–1995 Bosnian War to answer the following questions: How does individual subjective well-being evolve in the post-conflict period? Does exposure to conflict have an important role in determining one’s post-war experiences? Our identification strategy relies on regional and individual-level variation in exposure to the conflict. Individual war-related trauma has a negative, significant, and lasting impact on subjective well-being. The effect is stronger for those displaced during the war. Municipality-level conflict measures are not significantly associated with subjective well-being once municipality fixed effects are accounted for. |
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| External Contributors: | Anke C. Plagnol |
| Citation: | Shemyakina, Olga N., and Anke C. Plagnol. "Subjective Well-Being and Armed Conflict: Evidence from Bosnia-Herzegovina." Social Indicators Research 113.3 (2013): 1129-1152. |
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