@techreport{ff33e84116b047698e7871cf0988a3c2,
title = "No rain No gain: How Reduced Rainfall Impacts on Children{\textquoteright}s School Attendance in Uganda",
abstract = "The increasing frequency of negative rainfall shocks presents households with a challenge of whether to send their children to school or withdraw them, in order to provide shock-coping support in the household. We use high-resolution spatial rainfall data matched with geo-referenced Uganda National Panel Survey data to estimate the effect of negative rainfall shocks on children{\textquoteright}s school attendance. We find that exposure to negative rainfall shocks reduces children{\textquoteright}s school attendance by almost 10%. These results have important policy implications for improving children{\textquoteright}s schooling in Uganda, particularly in geographical areas that receive highly erratic levels of rainfall",
keywords = "Rainfall shocks, children{\textquoteright}s school attendance, Uganda",
author = "Peter Agamile and David Lawson",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
day = "1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781912607082",
series = "Global Development Institute Working Paper series",
publisher = "University of Manchester",
address = "United Kingdom",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "University of Manchester",
}
