children from herding households. Results are robust to measuring shock intensity with district-level livestock mortality and …

We estimate natural-disaster impacts on children's school enrollments and math skills and test for impact …-prone region. We link survey data on children aged 5 to 17 to time- and geo-coded disaster variables. We create time …

unusual rainfall shock affecting over two million people in both urban and rural Colombia. The results show that these … rainfall shock exacerbated poverty, pushing poorer rural children into unemployment and longer work hours. …

for children's development. We examine this hypothesis by analyzing the short-and long-run effects on children's health … children's education - not, however, on health. The effects on children's education aggravate over time. Empirical evidence …

for children's development. We examine this hypothesis by analyzing the short-and long-run effects on children's health … children's education - not, however, on health. The effects on children's education aggravate over time. Empirical evidence …

A substantial share of the world's children reside in disaster-prone areas and suffer from stunted growth. Child growth … and catch-up in children exposed to comparable earthquakes in utero. Our analysis leverages within cluster or mother … document modest adverse effects on children's height that are more pronounced when earthquakes are more unexpected and higher …

targets, it is important to examine various economic and sociocultural demand-side factors that hinder children from attending … appear to have substantial consequences on school attendance: perceptions about school readiness of children, economic … related to why preprimary-aged children not in school are viewed as being too young for schooling, why primary-aged children …