The author assesses empirically the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education. Although the results in the empirical literature tend to be inconclusive, using model averaging methods in the framework of cross-country and panel regressions, this paper finds an extremely robust negative partial correlation between secondary school enrollment and natural disaster risk. This result is exclusively driven by geological disasters...
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ПОДРОБНАЯ ИНФОРМАЦИЯ
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2009/03/01
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Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики
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WPS4862
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1
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1
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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Natural disasters and human capital accumulation
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human capital accumulation