Abstract
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.
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.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Pages 1-24
- DOI 10.1007/s11205-012-0131-8
- Authors
- Olga N. Shemyakina, School of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Anke C. Plagnol, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Journal Social Indicators Research
- Online ISSN 1573-0921
- Print ISSN 0303-8300