their impact on student achievement by combining US county-level data on FEMA disaster declarations with the Stanford … post disaster. Counties with above-average per-pupil expenditure show quicker recovery. The study sheds light on effect … heterogeneity by gender, socio-economic background, and disaster characteristics. …

This study measures the impact of a flood in 2010 in Benin on children’s schooling and labor. The data used are the … significantly increased. Despite the removal of school fees in 2006, the households still withdrew their children from school after …

temporary shock such as a natural disaster may leave permanent consequences for the economy. An obvious permanent effect of a … one-time disaster shock is that physical man-made and natural assets owned especially by poor households may end up … completely wiped out. The disaster may not be the direct cause; it may be that poor households would have to obtain minimum …