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Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption as well, and exhibited a great deal of incompetence. How voters responded to these in the next...
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As the severity and frequency of natural disasters become more pronounced with climate change and the increased habitation of at-risk areas, it is important to understand people's resilience to them. We quantify resilience by estimating how natural disasters in the US impacted individual...
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This paper studies how having your home damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster impacts on economic and financial …
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such interventions using rigorous theory-based impact evaluations is very rare. The objective of this paper is to examine …
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donations following the Bushfires, compared to non-disaster periods, is substantially greater for females than males; the … proportional increase in the number of females donating for the first time after the disaster is approximately twice the …
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This paper investigates the presence of explicit labour-saving heuristics within robotic patents. It analyses …
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In this paper, we describe a novel iterative procedure called SISTA to learn the underlying cost in optimal transport problems. SISTA is a hybrid between two classical methods, coordinate descent ("S"-inkhorn) and proximal gradient descent ("ISTA"). It alternates between a phase of exact...
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communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …
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, making recipients of such financial assistance less likely to support radicals (opportunity cost theory). Smaller payments … theory). Costly forms of political violence by the radical faction signal resolve and may attract more support, (outbidding … theory). We examine all four tactics for the case of Hamas, a radical faction in the Palestinian National Authority. We …
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Forced displacement as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters does not only have contemporaneous consequences but also long-run repercussions. This eclectic overview summarizes some recent research on forced displacement in economic history. While many of the episodes...
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