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How Policy Changes Affect Shareholder Wealth: The Case of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster

Betzer, André; Doumet, Markus; Rinne, Ulf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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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Persistent Impact of Natural Disasters on Child Nutrition and Schooling: Evidence from the 1999 Colombian Earthquake

Bustelo, Monserrat; Arends-Kuenning, Mary P.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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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Impact of the 1999 Earthquakes on the Outcome of the 2002 Parliamentary Election in Turkey

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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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The Long-term Impact of the 1995 Hanshin–Awaji Earthquake on Wage Distribution

Ohtake, Fumio; Okuyama, Naoko; Sasaki, Masaru; Yasui, Kengo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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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Resilience to Economic Shocks and the Long Reach of Childhood Bullying

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates whether people's ability to withstand and adapt to one of the most important economic shocks – job loss – is determined early on in childhood. Using nationally representative longitudinal data that tracks almost 3,000 children into adulthood, we show that the negative...

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Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: What Do We Know About Them?

Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper reviews recent studies on the effectiveness of services and incentives offered to disadvantaged youth. We focus our analysis on three types of interventions: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards. The objective of this article is threefold. First, we explain...

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