Yamauchi, Futoshi; Yohannes, Yisehac; Quisumbing, Agnes - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
This paper examines the impacts of disasters on dynamic human capital production using panel data from Bangladesh …, Ethiopia, and Malawi. The empirical results show that the accumulation of biological human capital prior to disasters helps …-term nutritional status) plays a role of insurance with resilience to disasters by protecting schooling investment and outcomes …