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Pro-social behavior, reciprocity or both?
Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - 2002
Empirical evidence is provided for the importance of non-reciprocal pro-social behavior of individuals in an anonymous, n-person pure public good setting. A unique panel data set of 136,000 observations is matched with an extensive survey. Even under anonymous conditions, a large number of...
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Can charitable appeals identify and exploit belief heterogeneity?
Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2021
Charitable fundraisers frequently announce giving by others, and research shows that this can increase donations. However, this mechanism may not put information about peers to the most efficient use if it is costly to inform individuals who are indifferent to peer actions or causes some...
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Fifty years of peril : a comprehensive comparison of the impact of terrorism and disasters linked to natural hazards (1970-2019)
Wilson, Timothy; Noy, Ilan - 2022
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 impactful than terrorism. The former had a larger...
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Government repression and the death toll from natural disasters
Costa, Samia - 2012
, however, could also play a role in disaster preparedness. In particular, I examine whether governments that are deemed to be … investment in disaster preparedness. I find an inverse U-shaped relationship between repression and casualties, with countries at … either end of the distribution experiencing lower fatalities. -- natural disasters ; government repression ; disaster …
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Macroeconomic effects of government spending shocks : new evidence using natural disaster relief in Korea
Yang, Weonho; Fidrmuc, Jan; Ghosh, Sugata - 2012
; natural disaster relief expenditure ; narrative approach ; structural vector-autoregressive model …
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Decentralization and natural disasters
Goodspeed, Timothy J. - 2013
disaster. The paper concludes by reflecting on what we know about whether policies to confront natural disasters should be …
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Long-run consequences of exposure to natural disasters
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Wray, Anthony - 2016
We utilize the individual-level World War I Draft Registration Cards matched to late-nineteenth century hurricane paths and the 1940 U.S. Census to explore whether fetal and early childhood exposure to stress caused by hurricanes affects human capital development and labor market outcomes in...
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Disastrous discretion : ambiguous decision situations foster political favoritism
Schneider, Stephan A.; Kunze, Sven - 2022
discretionary power in a partisan manner. We analyze the allocation of presidential disaster declarations in the United States …
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Natural disasters and regional development : the case of earthquakes
Fabian, Marius; Lessmann, Christian; Sofke, Tim - 2019
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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How do institutions affect the impact of natural disasters?
Bos, Jaap W. B.; Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; Lamers, Martien; … - 2022
managing natural hazards. Our results show that countries differ a lot in their disaster management efficiencies, with richer … institutions of higher quality indeed correlate with higher disaster relief efficiencies. Most important are indicators of good … with a 10%higher disaster relief efficiency will save one more life and protect four more people at the cost of $8 million in …
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