We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children’s nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … education. The results are robust to alternative specifications and different measures of exposure to the earthquake. Our … education. Reduced children's health and education will have lasting private and social costs, which could easily exceed the …

on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts … the disaster. The response to hurricanes does not seem to be driven by logrolling behavior or lobbysts' pressure. The …

This paper investigates the impact of risk attitudes on the decision to become an entrepreneur. In contrast to previous … variation in risk aversion the early exposure to a massive earthquake. Using several waves of the Bank of Italy Survey of … Household Income and Wealth (SHIW), we find that individuals experiencing an earthquake become significantly more risk averse …

-2017, we estimate the price effects of three flood risk signals: 1) the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, which …

This paper studies how having your home damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster impacts on economic and financial … employment and income, but increases financial hardship and financial risk aversion. These impacts are generally short …

Investing in human capital increases lifetime income, but these investments may involve substantial risk. In this paper … income, and to calculate certainty equivalent lifetime income at different levels of education. We find that university … education is associated with about a half a million euro increase in discounted lifetime disposable income compared to …

education. Accounting for non-employment risk leads to substantial changes in returns while wage risk has little impact. The …This paper looks at the joint impact of labour market risk and selection in to the labour market on returns to … risk- adjusted returns to both high school and college for males are larger than unadjusted returns. For females, risk …

This note takes a first look at the distribution of returns to education for people with disabilities, a particularly … uncover significant heterogeneity in the returns to education for these workers, which is drastically masked by the … account its substantial risk), and our results corroborate on the claimed importance of human capital in improving these …