Citation

Carlton-Ford S, Boop D. Int. Sociol. 2010; 25(1): 75-97.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0268580909346707

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Civil war adversely affects life chances (i.e. economic well-being, food production and education) that are key to social and economic development; civil war and these life chances all, potentially, affect the most basic life chance — mortality. Results show that civil war worsens child mortality despite controls for other life chances. In contrast, civil war accounts for much of the impact of other life chances on child mortality. Information comes from 175 countries from 1985 through 1998. Given the broad and persistent impact of civil war, future research concerned with social and economic development and, ultimately, the life chances of the masses should consider civil war as a factor in their theories and analyses.