quality of aid delivered and social agendas pursued across neighboring villages in a set disaster context. We model the … agencies. We analyze three waves of survey data on fishermen and fishing villages in Aceh, Indonesia from 2005-2009, following …

children in the disaster are significantly more likely to bear additional children after the tsunami. This response explains …

flood or earthquake exhibit more risk aversion. Experiencing a natural disaster causes people to perceive that they now face …We investigate whether experiencing a natural disaster affects risk-taking behavior. We conduct standard risk games … (using real money) with randomly selected individuals in rural Indonesia. We find that individuals who recently suffered a …

The impact of exposure to a major unanticipated natural disaster on the evolution of survivors' attitudes toward risk … assume greater financial risk in the short-term while rebuilding their lives after the disaster …

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was an extremely destructive event in Aceh, Indonesia, killing over 160,000 people and … a daunting array of challenges. At the population level, questions of how the disaster affected children's and parents … Recovery (STAR) to examine how disaster exposure affects educational aspirations and eventual attainment. We find that damage …

earthquake protection in Quebec and British Columbia is influenced by the default option and the structure of the insurance plan …. Homeowners in both provinces were given the opportunity to purchase protection against earthquake losses when presented with one … pool rather than the current private insurance plan increases the likelihood of purchasing earthquake protection by 151 …

This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake on the spatial distribution of economic … activity in the American West. Using variation in the potential damage intensity of the earthquake, we show that more severely … attractive migration destinations in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, which permanently changed the spatial …

The Messina-Reggio Calabria Earthquake (1908) was the deadliest earthquake and arguably the most devastating natural … disaster in modern European history. It occurred when overseas mass emigration from southern Italy was at its peak and … international borders were open, making emigration a widespread phenomenon and a readily available option for disaster relief. We …

2010 earthquake in Chile and the 2011 earthquake in Japan. In both cases there was an immediate and persistent effect on … product availability. The number of goods available for sale fell 32% in Chile and 17% in Japan from the day of the disaster … suggests a bigger role for supply disruptions that restricted the ability of retailers to re-stock goods after the earthquake …