Natural Disasters and Human Capital Accumulation

The empirical literature on the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education is inconclusive. Model averaging methods in a framework of cross-country and panel regressions show an extremely robust negative partial correlation between secondary school enrollment and natural...

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Main Author: Cuaresma, Jesus Crespo
Published: World Bank 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4522