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The Impact of In-Utero Flood Shocks on Education Achievement : Evidence from El Niño in Peru
Bazan, Muchin - 2023
born between 1975 and 1983 following the exposure to floods during the 1982-1983 El Niño in Peru. The probability of …
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Vulnerability to natural shocks : assessing the short-term impact on consumption and poverty of the 2015 flood in Mozambique
Salvucci, Vincenzo; Santos, Ricardo - 2019
Mozambique is among the most disaster-prone countries in the world. A bigger than usual, and mostly unexpected, flood … those months to assess the short-term impact of the 2015 flood on household consumption and poverty levels. Applying a … difference-in-difference approach, we find that, for those exposed to the flood, consumption reduced significantly in the short …
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Recent shocks and long-term change in the Samoan economy
Gibson, John K. - In: Pacific economic bulletin 25 (2010) 3, pp. 7-23
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Vulnerability to natural shocks : assessing the short-term impact on consumption and poverty of the 2015 flood in Mozambique
Salvucci, Vincenzo; Santos, Ricardo - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 176 (2020), pp. 1-15
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Early health shocks, intra-household resource allocation and child outcomes
Yi, Junjian; Heckman, James J.; Zhang, Junsen; Conti, … - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 125 (2015) 588, pp. 347-371
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Early health shocks, intrahousehold resource allocation, and child outcomes
Yi, Junjian; Heckman, James J.; Zhang, Junsen; Conti, … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468878
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Early health shocks, intrahousehold resource allocation, and child outcomes
Yi, Junjian; Heckman, James J.; Zhang, Junsen; Conti, … - 2014
An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457824
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Long-Run Impacts of Agricultural Shocks on Educational Attainment : Evidence from the Boll Weevil
Baker, Richard B. - 2018
The boll weevil spread across the Southern United States from 1892 to 1922 having a devastating impact on cotton cultivation. The resulting shift away from this child labor–intensive crop lowered the opportunity cost of attending school, and thus the pest increased school enrollment and...
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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes
Yi, Junjian - 2014
An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039591
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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes
Yi, Junjian - 2014
An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039768