Iraq War Making Children Shorter, Says Study
The level of violence is higher in the south and center of Iraq and they say in those areas that their estimates show children are on average 0.8cm shorter than their peers growing up elsewhere in the country.
The research used data from three independent surveys conducted before and after 2003 by the central statistics office of Iraq, and exploits the different intensities of the conflict across areas and the age of exposure to the war among children in order to estimate the effect of the war on their health.
