The long-term effects of crop diseases on education and earnings

Yuri Barreto and Rodrigo Oliveira

No wp-2024-73, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: The economic literature has shown that exogenous transitory shocks affect education by changing the opportunity cost of children. We argue that this is only part of the explanation. When permanent, shocks may change contracts and the organization of labour by eroding the productive structure and decreasing land values. This paper studies the long-term effects of a long-lasting environmental shock on individuals' educational achievement and earnings. We investigate the 1988 witches' broom outbreak in Brazil, the world's second-leading cocoa producer at the time.

Keywords: Long-run effects; Education; Earnings; Child labour; Agriculture; Shocks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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