TY - BOOK ID - 134296874 TI - Epidemics, Gender, and Human Capital in Developing Countries AU - Fabrizio, Stefania. AU - Gomes, Diego. AU - Meyimdjui, Carine. AU - Mendes Tavares, Marina. PY - 2021 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Macroeconomics KW - Economics: General KW - Labor KW - Women''s Studies' KW - Education and Inequality KW - Education and Economic Development KW - Measurement of Economic Growth KW - Aggregate Productivity KW - Cross-Country Output Convergence KW - Education: General KW - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General KW - Human Capital KW - Skills KW - Occupational Choice KW - Labor Productivity KW - Economics of Gender KW - Non-labor Discrimination KW - Economic & financial crises & disasters KW - Economics of specific sectors KW - Education KW - Labour KW - income economics KW - Gender studies KW - women & girls KW - Wages KW - Human capital KW - Women KW - Gender KW - Currency crises KW - Informal sector KW - Economics KW - Senegal UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134296874 AB - Epidemics have disrupted lives for centuries with deleterious human capital and economic repercussions. In this paper, we investigate how epidemics episodes have impacted school dropouts in developing countries, considering 623 epidemics episodes across countries from 1970 to 2019. Our estimates show that, on average, epidemics reduce completion rates by about 2.6 and 2.1 percentage points in primary and lower secondary education respectively, with girls more severely affected than boys. Using detailed micro data for Senegal, we also estimate the potential loss of lifelong earnings and find that the potential labor earnings loss from dropping out of primary and secondary school is almost double for girls than for boys. ER -