This paper studies the impact of the 1999 Colombian Earthquake on child nutrition and schooling. The identification … exposure of children to the shock. The paper uniquely identifies both the short- and medium-term impacts of the earthquake … collected one and six years after the earthquake. Colombia provides a unique setting for our study because the government …

We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children's nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … find lasting negative impacts of the earthquake on children's stunting and wasting as well as on school enrolment and … the earthquake's aftermath. This aid mitigated but could not fully prevent the adverse effects on children's health and …

We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children's nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … find lasting negative impacts of the earthquake on children's stunting and wasting as well as on school enrolment and … the earthquake's aftermath. This aid mitigated but could not fully prevent the adverse effects on children's health and …

discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT substantially improved school participation, it increased children …

neun Jahren mit einer um 20,1 bis 26,1 Prozentpunkte geringeren Wahrscheinlichkeit als gleichaltrige Kinder in nicht … extremen Wetterereignisse langfristige Folgen für die untersuchten Kinder haben. Die Politik vor Ort sollte daher - bestenfalls … unterstützt durch internationale Entwicklungshilfe - Maßnahmen ergreifen, die es Haushalten in Not ermöglichen, ihre Kinder ohne …

This paper estimates the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on the household decision about children's time allocation … about children's time through its magnitude and household's revealed vulnerability. Separated measures of the earthquake … results show that vulnerability at the time of the earthquake severely affects investments in children's human capital almost …

Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of …. First, we show that children living in municipality with high conflict have a gap in education enrollment and accumulation … respectively. Our results suggest significant education accumulation and enrollment gaps for children of IDPs that widens to over …