better define the geographic area hit by the disaster. We examine two large-scale earthquakes that occurred in two different …

Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), we show that substantially larger amounts of aid are disbursed when natural …

average. We find that countries that have in place disaster preparedness mechanisms and lower public debt have lower … probability of witnessing a significant drop in growth as a consequence of a natural disaster, but our innovative methodology in … this paper finds that the two policies are complements since their effectiveness vary across different disaster scenarios …