variation in children's exposure to a negative shock at different periods early in life. It is shown that children exposed to … explored by studying how exposure to the El Niño shock affected key inputs to the production of children's human capital: birth … children's health and cognitive outcomes, and explores whether shocks at certain periods matter more than others. The paper …

, particularly in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs). Whilst the long-term effects of being exposed to rainfall shocks early in … mechanisms through which these shocks operate. This paper analyses the effects of early exposure to rainfall shocks on four …-level rainfall estimates. The key identification strategy relies on temporary climatic shocks being uncorrelated with other latent …

children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose …