This paper studies the impact of the 1999 Colombian Earthquake on child nutrition and schooling. The identification … strategy combines household survey data with event data on the timing and location of the earthquake, exploiting the exogenous … exposure of children to the shock. The paper uniquely identifies both the short- and medium-term impacts of the earthquake …

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 … after the disaster. This natural disaster, however, caused a compositional change in the first-year student population, with …

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 … students enrolled at other Central Italian universities. The empirical results suggest that while this natural disaster has …

We examine the impact of a major earthquake that unexpectedly affected the Canterbury region of New Zealand on a wide … observed and unobserved differences between pregnant women in the area affected by the earthquake and other pregnant women by … initial unexpected earthquake to the impacts of thousands of aftershocks that occurred in the same region over the 18 months …

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 … this event by comparing the wage distributions of disaster victims and non-victims. To do this, we used three decomposition …

policy interventions that occurred after the Kobe earthquake that hit Japan in 1995 as a natural experiment inducing … earthquake damage but with and without the policy interventions, I find that a higher high school participation rate reduces …

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 …

the unique and unexpected German reaction to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which involved the immediate shutdown …