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The Effect of School Damages on Educational Outcomes in Post-Hurricane Jamaica
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Kaywana Raeburn – Education Economics, 2025
Large magnitude shocks generated by natural disasters have devastating impacts on household welfare and human capital accumulation. Using a rich household dataset, I estimate the effect of destruction caused by Hurricane Ivan in 2004 on educational outcomes in Jamaica. I treat the hurricane as a natural experiment and exploit exogenous variation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Weather, Natural Disasters, Educational Facilities