Erschienen in:CESifo Working Paper Series ; No. 4168
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1 Online-Ressource (45 p)
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2244784
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments March 31, 2013 erstellt
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Economic theory predicts that adverse shocks during early childhood have detrimental short- and long-run consequences for children's development. We examine this hypothesis by analyzing the short-and long-run effects on children's health and education of a specific shock: housing damages caused by a super typhoon. Our results reveal negative effects on children's education - not, however, on health. The effects on children's education aggravate over time. Empirical evidence indicates that the main underlying channel is a shock on families' wealth