The effect of school damages on educational outcomes in post-hurricane Jamaica

Kaywana Raeburn

Education Economics, 2025, vol. 33, issue 1, 138-160

Abstract: Large magnitude shocks generated by natural disasters have devastating impacts on household welfare and human capital accumulation. Using a rich household dataset, I estimate the effect of destruction caused by Hurricane Ivan in 2004 on educational outcomes in Jamaica. I treat the hurricane as a natural experiment and exploit exogenous variation in the intensity of its impact across parishes and across years using a difference-in-differences methodology. I find that while school enrollment was largely unaffected, school attendance by girls in rural areas decreased in the short to medium-term after the hurricane driven by disruption to the provision of school services.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2023.2289345

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