We compare the realised impact of terrorism and disasters linked to natural hazards. Using fifty years of data from two … databases covering 99 percent of the global population, we find that natural hazard disasters were more then 20 times more … cross-peril difference was in Asia, where natural hazard disasters took 324 million Lifeyears, while terrorism took ten …

indicates that the main underlying channel is a shock on families' wealth. -- child development ; natural disaster ; wealth … and education of a specific shock: housing damages caused by a super typhoon. Our results reveal negative effects on … shock …

Climate research suggests that global warming will lead to more frequent and more extreme natural disasters. Most … disasters are local events with effects on local economic activity. Hence, assessing their economic impacts with the help of …

We measure the longer-term effect of a major earthquake on the local economy, using night-time light intensity measured … process. We focus on the destructive Canterbury Earthquake Sequence (CES) 2010 -2011 as our case study. Uniquely for this … economic recovery after the earthquake, but delayed payments were less affective and cash settlement of claims were more …

This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in … 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 …

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 …

negligible if the country affected by a disaster is small but sizable for large economies. Similar disasters have heterogeneous …We estimate the short-run trade effects of natural disasters using monthly trade data and data on the physical … intensity of earthquakes and storms. We find large negative effects for heavily indebted poor, least developed or landlocked …

entire world for the period 1992-2013 we find that earthquakes reduce both light growth rates and light levels significantly …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 …

. We use a natural experiment, the mandated relocation of some households after an exogenous shock, to identify the causal … impact of moving on people’s mental health. The event we focus on is the 2011 Christchurch (New Zealand) earthquake, and the … compared to other residents of the earthquake-affected city who were allowed to remain in situ. This increase persisted to …