Effects of weather on human capital in Vietnam

Tien Vu

No 2019-01, AGI Working Paper Series from Asian Growth Research Institute

Abstract: This study examines the effects of concurrent weather, corresponding to test sites as well as three-year consolidated weather conditions at high school time, on the math test scores of census examinees participating in the Vietnamese national entrance examinations to universities and colleges on July 4 and 15, 2009. Using individual first difference, I find that the maximum temperature of the day, 30 to 32°C (86-89.6°F), which is slightly below the usual average in all July between the years 1950-2009, benefitted examinees most. My analysis demonstrates that female testers were more vulnerable to harsh temperature and extreme weather but also more physically adaptive to temperature than males. Extreme weather occurring at the high school, especially during the school calendar, has a negative effect on the test scores.

Keywords: Temperature; Extreme weather; Test score; Human capital; Gender; Drought; Vietnam; I25; J24; J16; I15; O15; Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-env, nep-sea and nep-ure
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://id.nii.ac.jp/1270/00000150/ (text/html)
https://agi.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_acti ... bute_id=22&file_no=1 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:agi:wpaper:00000150

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in AGI Working Paper Series from Asian Growth Research Institute Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Kazuki Tamura ().