Becerra, Oscar; Cavallo, Eduardo; Noy, Ilan - In: Review of Development Economics 18 (2014) 3, pp. 445-460
This paper examines Official Development Assistance (ODA) in the aftermath of large natural disasters between 1970 and 2008. Using an event-study approach, the paper finds that while the median increase in ODA is 18% compared with pre-disaster flows, the typical surge is small in relation to the...