The Bhopal Gas Disaster and its Long Term Impacts on Children
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| Prashant Bharadwaj (UC San Diego) | |
| Tuesday 6 October 2020 at 11:00 am - 12:00 pm (Hong Kong time, GMT +8) | |
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The Bhopal gas disaster is one of the world's worst industrial disasters. This study examines the long term educational and labor market impacts of survivors who were infants at the time of the disaster. We find long term negative impacts on educational attainment and employment disability. The study sheds light on potentially uncompensated aspects of damages caused by the disaster.
About the Speaker
Prashant Bharadwaj is Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests are in development and labor economics. His research affiliations include BREAD, CEGA, CERP and the NBER. He is currently a co-editor at Journal of Human Resources and an associate editor at the Journal of Development Economics and the Journal of Health Economics. Currently, he is also the Vice Chair of Graduate Studies in the Department of Economics and the Program Director of the South Asian Studies minor at UCSD. More >>
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This webinar is part of a series of Zoom events that explores issues in growth and development in India. The series' academic committee consists of Takashi Kurosaki (Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study), Pushkar Maitra (Monash University) and Sujata Visaria (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology).
The next webinar in the series will be
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20 October 11:00am |
Tarun Jain |
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad |
Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes |
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