THE HUMAN CAPITAL LEGACY OF A TRADE EMBARGO

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chakravarty, Abhishek; Parey, Matthias; Wright, Greg C.
• 署名单位: University of Manchester; University of Surrey; University of California System; University of California Merced
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1093/jeea/jvaa052
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 1692-1733
• 关键词: false discovery rate; child labor; economic consequences; stillbirth rates; sex-selection; HEALTH; height; LIFE; mortality; IMPACT

摘要

We estimate the effects of in-utero exposure to a trade embargo on survival and human capital in an import-dependent developing country. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that a nearly comprehensive embargo imposed by India on Nepal in 1989 led to a large decline in reported live births, and increased early life mortality. The decline in births is concentrated in poorer, more remote districts, and is sharper for female births than male births, consistent with documented gender discrimination. Women survivors of exposure are more educated in adulthood than unexposed cohorts.