This paper estimates the impact of home country natural disasters on the academic performance of immigrant students in New York City public schools. It provides credible evidence of these effects by exploiting the exogenous timing of natural disasters relative to testing dates in models with student fixed effects. Natural disasters in the home country lower immigrant students' test scores mostly in reading by 0.051 standard deviations and by 0.028 standard deviations in mathematics. This paper provides strong evidence that the home country is an important out-of-school factor shaping immigrant students' academic success and shows that children are affected by distal contexts in which they do not directly participate

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母国自然灾害对纽约市移民学生学业成绩的影响

本文估计了祖国自然灾害对纽约市公立学校移民学生学习成绩的影响。通过利用具有学生固定效应的模型中与测试日期相关的自然灾害的外在时间，它提供了这些效应的可靠证据。母国的自然灾害使移民学生的考试成绩降低，主要是阅读方面的数学偏差为0.051标准偏差，数学为0.028标准偏差。本文提供了有力的证据，表明祖国是影响移民学生学习成绩的重要校外因素，并表明，儿童受到远端环境的影响，他们没有直接参与其中