Child Schooling, Child Health, and Rainfall Shocks: Evidence from Rural Vietnam
研究了降雨冲击对越南农村儿童入学延迟、学业进展和身高（健康指标）的影响，发现孕期和第三年的不利降雨冲击有负面效应，且因地区经济差异而不同。
We study the effect of rainfall shocks on child schooling outcomes and on standardised height for age (a measure of child health) in rural Vietnam. We find that adverse rainfall shocks during pregnancy adversely affect children's school entry delay and progress through school. Adverse rainfall shocks in the third year of life adversely affect both schooling and child health. These effects differ by region, as a result of constraints that reflect regional economic heterogeneity. We predict that policies that help rural families smooth income shocks will result in increases in human capital and in substantial cumulative returns over a worker's working life.