Revisiting the Long-Run Educational Effects of the Ancash Earthquake: A Comment of Caruso & Miller (2015)
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Cesar A. Huaroto; Fredy Gonzales
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Project Citation:
Huaroto, Cesar A. , and Gonzales, Fredy. Revisiting the Long-Run Educational Effects of the Ancash Earthquake: A Comment of Caruso & Miller (2015). Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-06-19. https://doi.org/10.3886/E231742V2
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Summary:
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Caruso & Miller (2015) estimated the long-run effects of
early-life exposure to the 1970 Ancash earthquake in Peru (7.9 Mw), the largest
and deadliest earthquake in the country's modern history. In this paper, we
replicate and extend Caruso & Miller's
(2015) analyses and find that the impact was around three times
larger, indicating that the original study significantly underestimated the size
of the quake's impact. The original study used a 10 percent sample of the 1993
and 2007 censuses and an aggregated measure of exposure. In contrast, we used
the complete census microdata and a more disaggregated measure of exposure,
which explains our most significant estimates in combination. These results
highlight the long-term educational consequences of natural disasters and the
importance of using good-quality data to estimate their impact better.
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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Replication;
Long-term effects;
Human Capital;
Natural Disaster
Data Type(s):
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census/enumeration data
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