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Natural disasters have been a major cause of human suffering. Countries with higher income, lower inequality, lower corruption, and more democratic regimes have been found to experience less casualties from disasters. Government repression, however, could also play a role in disaster...
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We analyze the impact of earthquakes on nighttime lights at a sub-national level, i.e. on grids of different size. We argue that existing studies on the impact of natural disasters on economic development have several important limitations, both at the level of the outcome variable – usually...
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damaged by an unusually destructive earthquake. Almost all of the houses were insured. We ask whether insurance was able to … mitigate the damage adequately, or whether the damage from the earthquake, and the associated insurance payments, led to a … data sets: All housing market transactions, all earthquake insurance claims submitted to the public insurer, and all of the …
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done on a panel of 103 countries over the period 1979–2016. We find that in the five years following a large earthquake (i …) countries exposed accumulate reserves, for precautionary reasons, (ii) trade openness is positively associated with the post-earthquake …/or inflation targeting regimes, and (iv) the patterns of reserves holding post-earthquake vary with a country’s income level …
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We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children’s nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … intensity data with four waves of the Haiti Demographic Health Survey, two administered before and two after the earthquake. We … find lasting negative impacts of the earthquake on children’s stunting and wasting as well as on school enrolment and …
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to 2020 for 31 provinces and 429 counties to study the impact of the 2003 Bam earthquake in the Iranian Kerman Province … statistically significant boost in economic activity in the years following the earthquake. This increase in local economic activity … this period, the cultural importance of Bam, the severity of the earthquake, and the media attention. Additionally …
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We investigate the fiscal impacts of earthquakes in Japan. In contrast with earlier papers from elsewhere which examine national level aggregate spending, we are able to provide a detailed examination of separate budget categories within the local governments’ fiscal accounts. We do this using...
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example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …
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Our societies are witnessing a steady increase in longevity. This demographic evolution is accompanied by some convergence across countries, whereas substantial longevity inequalities persist within nations. The goal of this paper is to survey some crucial implications of changing longevity on...
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small and statistically insignificant. Â The likely reason that the NPIs were not more successful in curtailing mortality is …
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