Human Capital Accumulation and Disasters: Evidence from the Pakistan Earthquake of 2005
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Jishnu Das
Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank
Jishnu Das and co-authors Tahir Andrabi and Benjamin Daniels traced the effects of a large-scale disaster on children in a poor agrarian economy with low capital stocks. Using a new dataset from a survey conducted four years after the devastating Kashmir earthquake of 2005, they documented causal results related to child growth, education, and other areas.