Can pandemics affect educational attainment? Evidence from the polio epidemic of 1916.

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Julian Lange Professor of Economics, Miami University and Research Associate, NBER. FSB 2054, MSC 1035 800 E. High St., Oxford, OH 45056 USA.

Published: July 2020

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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