Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/211166 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 007.2019
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This paper examines the long-run impacts of income shocks by exploiting variation in coffee cultivation patterns within Colombia and world coffee prices during cohorts' school-going years in a differences-in-differences framework. The results indicate that cohorts who faced higher returns to coffee-related work during school-going years completed fewer years of schooling and have lower income in adulthood. These findings suggest that leaving school during temporary booms results in a significant loss of long-term income. This is consistent with the possibility that students may ignore or heavily discount the future consequences of dropout decisions when faced with immediate income gains.
Subjects: 
Information Avoidance
Energy Efficiency
Moral Wiggle Roo
JEL: 
J24
O12
O13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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