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The impact of natural disasters on children's education: Comparative evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam

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  • Cuong Viet Nguyen
  • Nguyet Minh Pham

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The study finds a differential impact of different types of natural disasters on education and cognitive ability of children aged 12 to 15 years in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam using a Young Lives data set and child fixed‐effects regression. Floods tend to cause more harmful effects on children's education than droughts, frosts, and hailstorms. Exposure to floods reduces the number of completed grades of children in Ethiopia, India, and Vietnam. For the case of Vietnam, exposure to floods also decreases school enrollment, and cognitive ability scores of children. Although floods do not have a significant effect on children in India, droughts, frosts, and hailstorms have a significantly negative effect on cognitive ability test scores of children. In Peru, the effect of disasters on children's education is small and not statistically significant.

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  • Cuong Viet Nguyen & Nguyet Minh Pham, 2018. "The impact of natural disasters on children's education: Comparative evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 22(4), pages 1561-1589, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:rdevec:v:22:y:2018:i:4:p:1561-1589
    DOI: 10.1111/rode.12406
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    1. Hoang, Trung Xuan & Nga, Van Thi Le, 2021. "The Impact of Natural Disasters on Womenʼs Empowerment in Rural Vietnam," Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, vol. 62(2), pages 101-123, December.
    2. Palacios, Paola & Rojas-Velásquez, Libardo, 2023. "Impact of weather shocks on educational outcomes in the municipalities of Colombia," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 101(C).
    3. Haile, Kaleab & Tirivayi, Nyasha & Nillesen, Eleonora, 2019. "Climate shocks, coping responses and gender gap in human development," MERIT Working Papers 2019-052, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
    4. Kennedy Ndue & Melese Mulu Baylie & Pál Goda, 2023. "Determinants of Rural Households’ Intensity of Flood Adaptation in the Fogera Rice Plain, Ethiopia: Evidence from Generalised Poisson Regression," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(14), pages 1-19, July.

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