Cavallo, Eduardo Alfredo; Becerra, Oscar; Noy, Ilan - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper examines Official Development Assistance (ODA) in the aftermath of large natural disasters between 1970 and 2008. Using an event-study approach, the paper finds that while the median increase in ODA is 18 percent compared to pre-disaster flows, the typical surge is small in relation...