We analyze the combined effect of political violence and adverse climatic and health shocks on child nutrition using longitudinal data from Andhra Pradesh, India. The paper shows three key results using two-stage least square (2SLS) models: (i) the presence of political violence reduces the mean height-for-age z-scores of children by between 0.4 and 0.9 standard deviations and reduces the mean weight-for-age $z$-scores of children by between 0.3 and 0.6 standard deviations; (ii) political violence generates such a large negative effect on the long-term nutrition of children (measured by height-for-age $z$-scores) through a reduction of the ability of households to cope with drought and illness; and (iii) drought and illness have an adverse effect on child nutrition in Andhra Pradesh only in violence-affected communities. The 2SLS results are robust to a wide range of robustness tests. Potential mechanisms explaining the strong joint welfare effect of conflict and adverse shocks are the failure of economic coping strategies in areas of violence and restricted access to public goods and services.

我们使用来自印度安得拉邦的纵向数据分析了政治暴力以及不利的气候和健康冲击对儿童营养的综合影响。本文使用两阶段最小二乘（2SLS）模型显示了三个关键结果：（i）政治暴力的存在使儿童的平均年龄z得分降低了0.4到0.9个标准差，并且降低了平均体重-饲料$ž$-儿童得分在0.3到0.6标准差之间；（ii）政治暴力会对儿童的长期营养产生如此大的负面影响（以身高衡量）$ž$-分数）通过降低家庭应对干旱和疾病的能力；（iii）干旱和疾病仅在受暴力影响的社区对安得拉邦的儿童营养产生不利影响。2SLS结果对于各种稳健性测试均具有稳健性。解释冲突和不利冲击的强大联合福利效应的潜在机制是暴力领域的经济应对策略的失败以及公共产品和服务的获取受到限制。