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Long-run Mental Health Impact of the Korean War
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- Issue Date
- 2017-10
- Citation
- Seoul Journal of Economics, Vol.30 No.4, pp. 431-453
- Keywords
- Korean War ; Mental health ; Sensitive age ; Traumatic event
- Abstract
- In this study, we investigate whether exposure to a major civil war has a long-run impact on the mental health of individuals who experienced the war in late childhood. We use difference-in-differences strategy and exploit geographic variations in the intensity of the Korean War using Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging. War exposure in late childhood to early teenage years has a long-run negative impact on variables related to mental health, including depression, fear, insomnia, and loneliness. The effect is exacerbated by poverty and household structure for two outcome variables: fear and loneliness.
- ISSN
- 1225-0279
- Language
- English
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