The Long-Term Labor Market Effect of Drought Exposure: Evidence from Nigeria
利用尼日利亚全国代表性调查数据，研究发现女性在生命早期遭遇干旱会导致成年后劳动市场表现恶化，包括工作概率和工作质量下降，教育成果也受损，人力资本形成不足是潜在机制。
This study shows that women’s labour market outcomes in adulthood vary depending on the circumstance that prevails in the early stages of their lives. Exploiting the variation in drought incidences across Nigerian states with a nationally representative household survey for the periods 2008 and 2013, the result shows that women exposed to the drought at early periods of life see adverse labor market outcomes (including the probability of working and the standard of such work). Educational outcomes also declined with exposure to the drought, suggesting that poor human capital formation is a potential channel for these effects. Impacts on a related supplementary outcome, age at marriage entry, is also a consistent operative channel of impact. These findings further shed light on potential labor supply deficits for women from early life exposure to adverse climatic conditions.