Parental Investments During Labor Shocks: Evidence from Vietnam’s Marine Disaster

Chan Eric W. () and Nguyen Luong ()
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Chan Eric W.: 1445 Babson College , Wellesley, MA 02457, USA
Nguyen Luong: University of Maryland – College Park, College Park, MD 20742, USA

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2025, vol. 25, issue 2, 389-411

Abstract: We examine the impacts of a marine environmental disaster on parents’ educational investments in the context of Vietnam. Previous research finds that the disaster caused a labor shock in the fishing industry, a primary source of income for workers in the area studied. Using administrative data and a difference-in-differences framework, we find that parents in affected provinces decreased educational investments by 29 % during the four years after the disaster. In households with male and female children of compulsory schooling age, we estimate that affected families spent approximately 5–6 % less on educational expenditures for girls than boys in affected provinces after the disaster.

Keywords: human capital; parental investments; education; disasters; labor shocks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I25 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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