The impact of early life shocks on human capital formation: evidence from El Niño floods in Ecuador

This paper investigates the persistent effects of negative shocks in utero and in infancy on low-income children's health and cognitive outcomes and examines whether timing of exposure matters differentially by skill type. Specifically, I exploit the geographic intensity of extreme floods in Ec...

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Published in:Journal of health economics 2018-11, Vol.62, p.13-44
Main Author: Rosales-Rueda, Maria
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aftermath
Breast feeding
Breastfeeding & lactation
Capital formation
Child development
Child poverty
Childbirth & labor
Children
Children & youth
Childrens health
Cognition
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Consumption
Early-life shocks
El Nino
Exposure
Falsification
Family inputs
Fertility
Floods
Food consumption
Health at birth
Health economics
Health status
Healthy food
Height
Households
Human capital
Human capital formation
Income
Infancy
Infant mortality
Infants
Low birth weight
Low income groups
Mobility
Ocean currents
Pregnancy
Robustness
Weight
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