Human capital formation and the American dust bowl

<p>I use variation in childhood exposure to the Dust Bowl, an environmental shock to health and income, as a natural experiment to explain variation in adult human capital. I also examine a variety of mechanisms by which the Dust Bowl influenced later-life wellbeing, and investigate the scope...

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Main Author: Arthi, V
Other Authors: Humphries, K
Format: Thesis
Published: 2015
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