lowered immigrant participation, and others have argued that this is true only in California. This paper analyzes the role of …

We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children’s nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … intensity data with four waves of the Haiti Demographic Health Survey, two administered before and two after the earthquake. We … find lasting negative impacts of the earthquake on children's stunting and wasting as well as on school enrolment and …

We examine the impact of a major earthquake that unexpectedly affected the Canterbury region of New Zealand on a wide … observed and unobserved differences between pregnant women in the area affected by the earthquake and other pregnant women by … initial unexpected earthquake to the impacts of thousands of aftershocks that occurred in the same region over the 18 months …

This paper studies the impact of the 1999 Colombian Earthquake on child nutrition and schooling. The identification … strategy combines household survey data with event data on the timing and location of the earthquake, exploiting the exogenous … exposure of children to the shock. The paper uniquely identifies both the short- and medium-term impacts of the earthquake …

Using data on 24 teachers and 982 students from a 2006 survey of California high school economics classes, we assess …

,123 schoolchildren grades 6-10 in 15 California schools participated in the experiment. Although the program significantly increased …

California Department of Justice, we estimate the extent to which a county's reported abuse rate diverges from its trend when its …