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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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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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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...
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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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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...
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