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Natural disasters and social capital formation : the impact of the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake

Yamamura, Eiji - 2013

The Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake struck Japan in 1995, causing devastating damage to the economic landscape of … south-central Japan. The earthquake also caused people to realize the importance of social capital in Japan. Based on a … earthquake enhanced the investment in social capital through participation in community activity. The differences …

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Comparison of social trust's effect on suicide ideation between urban and non-urban areas : the case of Japanese adults in 2006

Yamamura, Eiji - 2015

An increasing number of studies have addressed the determinants of suicide. Social capital is a key factor in preventing suicide. However, little is known about the experience of suicide ideation using subjective values. From the viewpoint of suicide prevention, it is worth examining how people...

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Fairness and the unselfish demand for redistribution by taxpayers and welfare recipients

Sabatini, Fabio; Ventura, Marco; Yamamura, Eiji; … - 2017

We illustrate how the desire to live in a fair society that rewards individual effort and hard work triggers an unselfish though rational demand for redistribution. This leads the well off to prefer higher taxes and the poor to reject extreme progressivity. We then provide evidence of these...

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Different effects of social capital on health status among residents : evidence from modern Japan

Yamamura, Eiji - 2010

This paper aims to explore how social capital is related to self-rated health status in Japan and how this relationship depends on the extent to which a person is embedded into the community. This study used data from 3079 adult participants in Japan’s Social Policy and Social Consciousness...

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Death caused by natural disasters : the role of ethnic heterogeneity

Yamamura, Eiji - 2011

Kahn (2005) found that ethnic heterogeneity reduces the number of deaths caused by natural disasters, a finding that is contrary to theoretical predictions. This paper casts doubt on this finding and uses cross-country data from 1965 to 2008 to conduct a re-estimation. To alleviate omitted...

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Death tolls from natural disasters : influence of interactions among fiscal decentralization, institutions and economic development

Yamamura, Eiji - 2012

Previous research shows that decentralization plays a key role in the reduction of damage caused by natural disasters. The effect of decentralization will differ according a country’s level of economic development. To investigate this matter further, this paper attempts to investigate how...

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Public sector corruption and the probability of technological disasters

Yamamura, Eiji - 2013

A growing number of studies have explored the influence of institution on the outcomes of disasters and accidents from the viewpoint of political economy. This paper focuses on the probability of the occurrence of disasters rather than disaster outcomes. Using panel data from 98 countries, this...

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