02231cas a2200349 a 4500 AALejournalIMF022161 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781589066854 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Fabrizio, Stefania. Epidemics, Gender, and Human Capital in Developing Countries / Stefania Fabrizio, Diego Gomes, Carine Meyimdjui, Marina M. Tavares. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021. 1 online resource (18 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students 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. Mode of access: Internet Aggregate Productivity imf Cross-Country Output Convergence imf Education and Economic Development imf Education and Inequality imf Epidemics, Education, Development imf Measurement of Economic Growth imf Gomes, Diego. M. Tavares, Marina. Meyimdjui, Carine. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2021/266 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2021/266/001.2021.issue-266-en.xml IMF e-Library