This paper studies the impact of the 1999 Colombian Earthquake on child nutrition and schooling. The identification … strategy combines household survey data with event data on the timing and location of the earthquake, exploiting the exogenous … exposure of children to the shock. The paper uniquely identifies both the short- and medium-term impacts of the earthquake …

the last decade or so, and not just the incumbents in 2002. The party in charge of the ministry responsible for earthquake …

This paper explores the effects of the 1995 Hanshin–Awaji Earthquake on the wages of people in the area of the … earthquake over the 17 years after its occurrence and identified which part of the wage distribution has been most affected by … shows that the negative impact of the earthquake still affects the mean wages of male workers. Second, the DFL decomposition …

stereotype of risk averse and less competitive older employees. …

Investing in human capital increases lifetime income, but these investments may involve substantial risk. In this paper … vocational high school. Accounting for risk does little to change this picture. By contrast, vocational high school is associated …

This paper proposes that risk aversion encourages individuals to invest in balanced skill profiles, making them more … the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch … university graduates provides evidence which supports this contention. It thereby raises the possibility that even risk …

exogenous risk and delegation. That is, we show that only if exogenous risk is sufficiently large, the risk-neutral principal … may prefer to delegate authority over decisions to the risk-averse agent. Intuitively, for incentive reasons, the … principal may optimally want to allow the agent to reduce his risk exposure. Nevertheless, even endogenous risk may be higher …