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Keith Meyers1, Melissa A Thomasson2
1Department of Business and Economics, Danish Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense, Denmark.
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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