Can pandemics affect educational attainment? Evidence from the polio epidemic of 1916.

IF 1.5 1区历史学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Cliometrica Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-07-27 DOI:10.1007/s11698-020-00212-3

Keith Meyers, Melissa A Thomasson

引用次数: 17

Abstract

We leverage the largest polio outbreak in US history, the 1916 polio epidemic, to study how epidemic-related school interruptions affect educational attainment. Using polio morbidity as a proxy for epidemic exposure, we find that children aged 10 and under, and school-aged children of legal working age with greater exposure to the epidemic experienced reduced educational attainment compared to their slightly older peers. These reductions in observed educational attainment persist even after accounting for the influenza epidemic of 1918.

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流行病会影响受教育程度吗?1916年小儿麻痹症流行的证据。

我们利用美国历史上最大的脊髓灰质炎爆发，即1916年的脊髓灰质炎流行，来研究与流行病相关的学校中断如何影响教育成就。使用脊髓灰质炎发病率作为流行病暴露的代表，我们发现10岁及以下儿童和法定工作年龄的学龄儿童与稍大的同龄人相比，受教育程度较低。即使考虑到1918年的流感疫情，这种观察到的受教育程度的下降仍然存在。

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