Exploiting Tangshan 1976 - the deadliest earthquake in the 20th century - as a source of exogenous variation, we estimate the long-run effect of a historical shock on contemporary socio-economic outcomes. Cohorts born after the earthquake were not only larger, but exhibit lower school completion rates, particularly among the female today. Despite lower schooling levels, there is no evidence for...
Guo Xu
Berlin,
24.06.2011
- 25.06.2011| Conference on Development Economics and Policy: Seventh Annual Conference of the German Economic Association, Research Committee on Development Economics
Simon Fietze, Elke Holst, Verena Tobsch
Madrid, Spanien,
23.06.2011
- 25.06.2011| 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics: SASE 2011
Petra Zloczysti, Jens Schmidt-Ehmcke
Verona, Italien,
21.06.2011
- 24.06.2011| XII European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis: EWEPA 2011
Martin Gornig
Bochum,
21.06.2011
- 22.06.2011| Bochumer Workshop "Industrielle Entwicklungsprozesse in BRIC-Staaten als Herausforderung für die deutsche Wirtschaft"