Exposure to extreme events has been hypothesized to affect subsequent mortality because of mortality selection and … scarring effects of the event itself. We examine survival at and in the five years after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and … we find evidence for positive mortality selection among older individuals, with stronger effects for males than for …

We follow Medicare cohorts over time and space to estimate Hurricane Katrina's long-run mortality effects on elderly … eight years past the storm by 1.74 percentage points. Migration to lower-mortality regions explains most of this survival … increase. Migrants to low- versus high-mortality regions look similar at baseline, but migrants' subsequent mortality is 0 …

Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. We investigate … the fertility response to an unanticipated mortality shock that resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed … population-representative multilevel longitudinal data, we identify a behavioral fertility response to mortality exposure, both …

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 … evidence that the earthquake had, on average, a large impact on emigration or its composition. There were, however …

effects of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a shock that immediately reduced United States. GNP by 1.5-1.8 percentage points … the Federal Reserve. In this study, we identify the San Francisco earthquake as the shock that triggered the chain of …

influx into Florida public schools following the Haitian earthquake of 2010 using unique matched birth and schooling records … earthquake or in the two years that follow, regardless of the socioeconomic status, grade level, ethnicity, or birthplace of …

We investigate the effect of sovereign risk on credit supply, using August 1999 Earthquake as an exogenous shock …