The Tempest: Natural Disasters, Early Shocks and Children's Short- and Long-Run Development

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4168

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Health and Inequality ; Education and Inequality ; Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
• Subject: child development ; natural disaster ; wealth shock

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Deuchert, Eva ; Felfe, Christina
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/71162
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET