Max Schaub

@maxschaub.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Hamburg, also Fellow at WZB Berlin Violence | Migration | Health

Why does armed conflict harm child health? In a new paper, we show that victimization of caregivers causes lower vaccination rates and reduced healthcare-seeking, mostly due to a loss of trust in state institutions. Improving trust after conflict can potentially be life-saving.

Maternal and child healthcare-seeking among victims of violence in armed conflict: a quasi-experimental study in Northeast Nigeria

Introduction Armed conflict severely impacts health, with indirect deaths often exceeding direct casualties two to four times, disproportionately affecting women and children. Although the magnitude o...

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We are very excited to host Noam Gidron today in our Hamburg Political Science Seminar Series (info below) - very much looking forward to your talk, @noamgidron.bsky.social ! Please all join if you are interested. Everyone is welcome to attend, no prior registration necessary.

Noam Gidron@noamgidron.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Looking forward to presenting at the Hamburg Political Science Seminar Series next week (December 10). Feel free to get in touch if you're around!

⏰ Please share widely! We have an opening in our group at @wzb.bsky.social Berlin for a PhD student wanting to work on political violence (pol economy of development / pol ineq) wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/345... Apps from global south especially encouraged. Fun group, great city, lots to do!

Predoctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) (ID 303)

The WZB Berlin Social Science Center is a publicly financed research institution that conducts leading edge theory-based and problem-oriented social ...

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Join us for a keynote by Halvard Buhaug, Research Director at PRIO and Professor at NTNU, on the climate-conflict-migration nexus. 🗓️ Date: November 27, 2024 🕔 Time: 5:00 - 6:15 PM 📍 Location: WZB Berlin Social Science Center 🔗 Register here: events.wzb.eu/madconf24/ 2/2🧵

Why are civilians abused and killed in during conventional war? Using data from Ukraine, Julius Koch and I put forward a new explanation: The threat to combatants posed by long-range weapon technology.   The paper is here: osf.io/z38sq/ , and we would be grateful for comments!

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