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Title: Shocks, Resilience and Long-term Human Capital Outcomes: Evidence from Natural Disasters in the Philippines

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Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: Natural disasters can jeopardize human capital investments, especially in developing countries. Few empirical studies have analyzed interventions that build resilience to negative shocks and protect youth human capital. Using super-typhoons geographic variation combined with age- cohort exposure and the spatial variation of a secondary school infrastructure program in the Philippines, we estimate a triple difference model to analyze whether children who were exposed to typhoons and were fully exposed to the infrastructure program have better long-term human capital outcomes. Using census data, more than ten years after the natural disaster and program, we find that children affected by the super-typhoons and later benefited from the program, accumulated more years of schooling and were more likely to complete high school. We also find that these protective effects of the infrastructure program to the natural disaster are differentiated by gender. For men, these gains in education are associated with a higher likelihood of high-skilled employment and migrating overseas while for women these benefits are associated with a lower likelihood of being married.

Url: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/259129/files/Abstracts_17_05_24_22_55_44_77__66_31_137_29_0.pdf

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Authors: Almanza, Catalina, H; Gail, Ava Cas

Conference Name: Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting

Publisher Location: Chicago, IL

Data Collections: IPUMS International

Topics: Natural Resource Management, Other

Countries: Philippines