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What methods may be used in impact evaluations of humanitarian assistance?

Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; … - 2015

Despite the widespread occurrence of humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, earthquakes, droughts, floods and violent conflict and despite the significant financial resources devoted to humanitarian assistance, systematic learning from such interventions using rigorous theory-based impact...

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Voter reaction to government incompetence and corruption related to the 1999 earthquakes in Turkey

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015

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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Forced displacement in history : some recent research

Becker, Sascha O. - 2022

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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Resilience to disaster: evidence from daily wellbeing data

Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David; Knott, Rachel J.; … - 2021

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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Charitable giving for overseas development : UK trends over a quarter century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Backus, Peter; Micklewright, John; … - 2008

Charitable giving for overseas development and emergency relief is important in the UK, being about a quarter of the size of government development aid. There has been a strong growth over time, reflecting the activities of development charities and the public response to a series of...

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English skills and early labour market integration of humanitarian migrants

Cheng, Zhiming; Wang, Ben Zhe; Jiang, Zhou; Taksa, Lucy; … - 2020

We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...

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The economic impacts of direct natural disaster exposure

Johar, Meliyanni; Johnston, David; Shields, Michael; … - 2020

This paper studies how having your home damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster impacts on economic and financial outcomes. Our context is Australia, where disasters are frequent. Estimates of regression models with individual, area and time fixed-effects, applied to 10 waves of data...

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Aid and radicalization: the case of Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza

Loewenthal, Amit; Miaari, Sami H.; Hoeffler, Anke - 2021

In this paper we study how radical political factions secure support. In order to achieve their objective of gaining support, radical political factions can choose from a number of specific strategies. They can provide financial assistance and generate a reciprocal relationship with their...

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Robots at work

Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - 2015

Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their … economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a … panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and …

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Productive robots and industrial employment : the role of national innovation systems

Kapetaniou, Chrystalla; Pissaridēs, Christophoros A. - 2022

In a model with robots, and automatable and complementary human tasks, we examine robot-labour substitutions and show … relationship for thirteen countries and find that countries with poor innovation capabilities substitute robots for workers much …-manufacturing robots and workers are stronger substitutes than in other manufacturing. …

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