ERIC Number: EJ1458009
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 23
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ISSN: ISSN-0964-5292
EISSN: EISSN-1469-5782
The Effect of School Damages on Educational Outcomes in Post-Hurricane Jamaica
Kaywana Raeburn
Education Economics, v33 n1 p138-160 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 in the intensity of its impact across parishes and across years using a difference-in-differences methodology. I find that while school enrollment was largely unaffected, school attendance by girls in rural areas decreased in the short to medium-term after the hurricane driven by disruption to the provision of school services.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Weather, Natural Disasters, Educational Facilities, Enrollment, Females, Early Adolescents, Adolescents, Human Capital, Attendance
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Jamaica
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