Extended Data Table 4 Impact of disasters on post-secondary attendance

From: The effect of natural disasters on human capital in the United States

  1. Each observation is the change in log-college enrollment at the college-year level and all regressions include time fixed effects. Standard errors, in parenthesis, are clustered at the county-level. The p-value of a two-sided test of the null hypothesis that the coefficient is zero are listed below, in square brackets; the p-values do not adjust for multiple comparisons. ‘Small Disaster’ consist of counties with per capita property damage of $1-$10 per capita in a year; ‘Medium Disaster’ have per capita property damage of $10- $100; ‘Large Disaster’ have per capita property damage of $100-$500, and ‘Very Large Disaster’ have more than $500 per capita property damage. County-years with less than $1 in per capita property damage, including those with no property damage, are the omitted category.
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