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 …

This paper uses the synthetic control method to look at how the L'Aquila earthquake affected subsequent enrolment at … contribution made by the university to the local economy before the earthquake. The empirical results indicate that the earthquake …-disaster measures adopted in an attempt to mitigate the expected negative effects on enrolment triggered by the earthquake. Finally, the …

This paper examines the effect of the L'Aquila earthquake on the academic performance of the students of the local … of L'Aquila before and after the earthquake with changes in educational outcomes during the same time period among …

present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009, which hit a … - occurred on the fourth and the eighth day of the earthquake - have a statistically significant impact. Overall, we find that …

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 …

This paper explores the effects of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on the wages of people in the area of the … earthquake over the 17 years after its occurrence and identified which part of the wage distribution has been most affected by … shows that the negative impact of the earthquake still affects the mean wages of male workers. Second, the DFL decomposition …