The left panel of Figure E.2 in the Online Appendix displays the measure of school-age exposure to storms at the state level for our sample.9 Children residing in 28 out of the 35 Indian states experienced tropical storms between the ages of 5 and 15. [...] All of the estimates are statistically significant and represent the percentage point changes in the probability of completing a certain level of education in the case of unit school-age exposure to storms. [...] The estimate in column (5) indicates a 1.6 percentage point increase in the likelihood of performing domestic duties as the primary activity in early adulthood, which corresponds to a 4.8% change when taking the share of individuals involved in domestic duties (i.e., a share of 0.33) as a baseline. [...] We present the results of the falsification test in Figure 1, which visually shows the distri- bution of t-statistics for the coefficient of interest. [...] The histograms represent the distribution of t-statistics across the 1,000 repetitions of the falsification exercise, with the red vertical line indicating the t-statistic of the baseline estimates (3.01, 2.96, and -3.79, respectively).
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