Child Growth and Refugee Status: Evidence from Syrian

In other words, we find no evidence of a direct impact of being a refugee on current weight; the differences in the covariates explain all of the differences in the current-weight gap. [...] Table 8 gives the results by the country of the first trimester in panel (A) and the country of conception in panel (B). [...] 4.2.6 Heterogeneity by Years in Turkey A potentially important variable in refugee children’s growth outcomes is the duration of residence of their mothers in Turkey at the time of birth and at the time of the measurement of the anthropometric outcomes (which is the survey date). [...] Therefore, in an alternative specification, we interact the refugee status with the mother’s residence duration at the time of each birth in estimating the native-refugee differences in birthweight and with that at the time of measurement for anthropometric outcomes. [...] In addition, since most Syrian refugees in Turkey originate from the northern provinces, we weight the Syrian provincial averages in the 2009 SFHS by the distribution of province of birth of Syrian refugees in Turkey.