Epidemics, Gender, and Human Capital in Developing Countries /

Epidemics have disrupted lives for centuries with deleterious human capital and economic repercussions. In this paper, we investigate how epidemics episodes have impacted school dropouts in developing countries, considering 623 epidemics episodes across countries from 1970 to 2019. Our estimates sho...

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Autor Principal: Fabrizio, Stefania
Outros autores: Gomes, Diego, M. Tavares, Marina, Meyimdjui, Carine
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2021/266
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Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF
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