About the Authors

Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks

MJHHicks@aol.com

Affiliations Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, United Kingdom, Iraq Body Count, London, United Kingdom

Hamit Dardagan

Affiliation Iraq Body Count, London, United Kingdom

Gabriela Guerrero Serdán

GGS carried out this research while a doctoral student at the Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London, and while a predoctoral fellow at Yale University. The views expressed in this work are those of the authors and do not represent those of UNICEF.

Affiliations Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, United Kingdom, The MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Peter M. Bagnall

Affiliation Iraq Body Count, London, United Kingdom

John A. Sloboda

Affiliations Iraq Body Count, London, United Kingdom, Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, United Kingdom

Michael Spagat

Affiliation Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

MHH is an unpaid non-executive director, HD and JAS the unpaid co-founders, and PMB the software architect of the NGO Iraq Body Count.

Author Contributions

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: MHRH HD GGS PMB JAS MS. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: MHRH HD GGS PMB JAS MS. Designed the experiments/the study: MHRH HD MS. Analyzed the data: MHRH HD GGS PMB MS. Collected data/did experiments for the study: HD JAS. Wrote the first draft of the paper: MHRH. Contributed to the writing of the paper: MHRH HD GGS JAS MS.