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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 …
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This paper analyzes how policy changes affect shareholder wealth in the context of environmental regulation. We exploit the unique and unexpected German reaction to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which involved the immediate shutdown of almost half of Germany’s nuclear reactors while...
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the last decade or so, and not just the incumbents in 2002. The party in charge of the ministry responsible for earthquake …
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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 …
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We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure in starting a business...
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