The impact of drought on human capital in rural India
We study the impact of a severe drought on children's educational outcomes in rural Maharashtra, a state in central India. Using pooled cross section data on children's test scores, we employ a difference-in-differences methodology to estimate the impact. We find that the drought caused a decline of...
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Cambridge University Press
2019
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145914 |
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