Long-run consequences of exposure to natural disasters
We explore whether fetal and postnatal exposure to tropical cyclones affects education and income in adulthood by using World War I draft records linked to census data. Difference-in-differences estimates indicate that white males born in hurricane-prone US states who experienced a hurricane in uter...
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University of Chicago Press
2019
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