id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cord-344713-jisp238l	Meyers, Keith	Can pandemics affect educational attainment? Evidence from the polio epidemic of 1916	2020-07-27		.txt	text/plain	8898	436	59	Our results show that children born in states with more reported polio cases had lower educational attainment compared to slightly older birth cohorts who would have already completed schooling before the 1916-1917 school year and that the decline in educational attainment varied depending on their age during the outbreak. To test whether the epidemic influenced the educational attainment of exposed cohorts, we match a sample of white males born between 1895 and 1916 with the 1916 polio morbidity rate in their state of birth, and the years of education they report having in the 1940 US Census (Ruggles et al. 25 Results reported in Table 7 show that including the influenza death rate and its interactions with age groups does not affect our finding that children of legal working age in states with greater numbers of polio cases had less educational attainment.	./cache/cord-344713-jisp238l.txt	./txt/cord-344713-jisp238l.txt