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Recovery from an Early-Life Shock through Improved Access to Schools

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: We study recovery from an adverse early-life environmental shock. First, we show that exposure to an adverse rainfall shock in the first year of life led to lower educational attainment for exposed Indonesians. Next, by use of geographic variation in the intensity of an Indonesian primary school construction program, we find that improved access to primary schools facilitated complete recovery from the educational deficit. The program had no effect on the education of individuals who did not experience the adverse rainfall shock. This was, in part, a result of deteriorating school quality and increased competition to get into middle schools.

Source: Journal of Human Capital

DOI: 10.1086/734086

Authors: Rakesh Banerjee, Tushar Bharati, Seungwoo Chin, Dawoon Jung

Institutions: University of Exeter, The University of Western Australia, Government of the Republic of Korea, Korea Institute of Public Finance

Language: English

Topic: Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Subfield: Safety Research

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Quality education, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W3012326663

FWCI: 0.41

Cites: 88

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10