Baez, Javier E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children’s anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …
