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Impact of Natural Disasters on Education Outcomes: Evidence from the 198789 Locust Plague in Mali

Impact of Natural Disasters on Education Outcomes: Evidence from the 198789 Locust Plague in Mali This paper estimates the long-run impact of a large income shock based on regional variations in the 198789 locust plague in Mali. We take comprehensive population census data to construct birth cohorts of individuals and compare those born and living in the years and villages affected by locust plagues with other cohorts. We find a clear, strong impact on the educational outcomes of children living in rural areas, but no impact at all on children living in urban areas. School enrolment by boys born or less than four at the time of shock is found to be affected. School enrolment by boys born in 198788, the main infestation years, is found to be hardest hit by the plagues. However, although the impact on school enrolment figuresis greater for boys than girls, the educational attainments of girls attending school and living in rural areas are harder hit than the boys. Our controls for individuals' potentially selective migration behaviour and for differences in school infrastructures do nothing to change our results. Our findings are also robust to controls for age misreporting and variations in the cohort cut-off point. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of African Economies Oxford University Press

Impact of Natural Disasters on Education Outcomes: Evidence from the 198789 Locust Plague in Mali

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Oxford University Press
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The author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for the Study of African Economies. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals. permissions@oup.com
ISSN
0963-8024
eISSN
1464-3723
DOI
10.1093/jae/eju018
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Abstract

This paper estimates the long-run impact of a large income shock based on regional variations in the 198789 locust plague in Mali. We take comprehensive population census data to construct birth cohorts of individuals and compare those born and living in the years and villages affected by locust plagues with other cohorts. We find a clear, strong impact on the educational outcomes of children living in rural areas, but no impact at all on children living in urban areas. School enrolment by boys born or less than four at the time of shock is found to be affected. School enrolment by boys born in 198788, the main infestation years, is found to be hardest hit by the plagues. However, although the impact on school enrolment figuresis greater for boys than girls, the educational attainments of girls attending school and living in rural areas are harder hit than the boys. Our controls for individuals' potentially selective migration behaviour and for differences in school infrastructures do nothing to change our results. Our findings are also robust to controls for age misreporting and variations in the cohort cut-off point.

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Journal of African EconomiesOxford University Press

Published: Jan 14, 2015

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