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      “The Dust Was Long in Settling”: Human Capital and the Lasting Impact of the American Dust Bowl

      The Journal of Economic History
      Cambridge University Press (CUP)

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          I find that childhood exposure to the Dust Bowl, an environmental shock to health and income, adversely impacted later-life human capital—especially when exposure was in utero—increasing poverty and disability rates, and decreasing fertility and college completion rates. The event's devastation of agriculture, however, had the beneficial effect of increasing high school completion, likely by pushing children who otherwise might have worked on the farm into secondary schooling. Lastly, New Deal spending helped remediate Dust Bowl damage, suggesting that timely and substantial policy interventions can aid in human recovery from natural disasters.

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                Journal
                The Journal of Economic History
                J. Econ. Hist.
                Cambridge University Press (CUP)
                0022-0507
                1471-6372
                March 2018
                April 03 2018
                March 2018
                : 78
                : 1
                : 196-230
                Article
                10.1017/S0022050718000074
                577575f7-8ef5-4bfe-98c8-53a869e75458
                © 2018

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