This study analyses the effects of exposure to tropical storms and hurricanes during pregnancy on children's anthropometric measures taken within the first five years of life. We merge destruction indexes calculated at the district level with 13 yearly rounds of household level surveys from Jamaica. The empirical strategy exploits variation arising from the storms' timing and intensity across different cohorts within the same district. The findings rule out medium-to-large overall adverse effects of tropical storms. However, when expectant mothers living in coastal-rural areas are affected by the cumulative destruction of two hurricanes, their children experience negative impacts on both weight-for-age and weight-for-height measures.

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天气冲击对儿童早期发展的影响：来自牙买加25年热带风暴的证据。

这项研究分析了怀孕期间暴露于热带风暴和飓风对儿童生命最初五年内采取的人体测量学措施的影响。我们将在地区级别计算的破坏指数与来自牙买加的13轮年度家庭级别调查合并。该经验策略利用了同一地区不同队列中风暴的时间和强度引起的变化。研究结果排除了热带风暴对中型到大型的总体不利影响。但是，当生活在沿海农村地区的准妈妈受到两次飓风的累积破坏时，他们的孩子对按年龄和按体重计算的身高都会受到负面影响。