Can pandemics affect educational attainment? Evidence from the polio epidemic of 1916

We leverage the largest polio outbreak in US history, the 1916 polio epidemic, to study how epidemic-related school interruptions affect educational attainment. Using polio morbidity as a proxy for epidemic exposure, we find that children aged 10 and under, and school-aged children of legal working...

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Autores principales: Meyers, Keith, Thomasson, Melissa A.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7384283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32837578
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11698-020-00212-3
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spelling pubmed-73842832020-07-28 Can pandemics affect educational attainment? Evidence from the polio epidemic of 1916 Meyers, Keith Thomasson, Melissa A. Cliometrica (Berl) Original Paper We leverage the largest polio outbreak in US history, the 1916 polio epidemic, to study how epidemic-related school interruptions affect educational attainment. Using polio morbidity as a proxy for epidemic exposure, we find that children aged 10 and under, and school-aged children of legal working age with greater exposure to the epidemic experienced reduced educational attainment compared to their slightly older peers. These reductions in observed educational attainment persist even after accounting for the influenza epidemic of 1918. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-07-27 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7384283/ /pubmed/32837578 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11698-020-00212-3 Text en © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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