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the unique and unexpected German reaction to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which involved the immediate shutdown … of almost half of Germany's nuclear reactors while safety checks were carried out, and a three-month moratorium on … companies to renewable energies companies in Germany. We moreover find that the joint market capitalization of these firms has …
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We analyze the role of food insurance on the housing markets of coastal cities. To do so we have assembled a parcel-level dataset including the universe of residential sales for three coastal urban areas in the United States – Miami-Dade county (2008-2015), New York city (2003-2016), and...
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We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure in starting a business...
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villages. The impact persists for several years, particularly if the disaster was severe. Some, but not all, of this effect is … probability of a disaster occurring and the expected severity of such a disaster suggest that changes in perceptions of background …
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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...
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The aim of this paper is to assess the relationship between natural disasters caused by climate change and migration by interesting in the migration rates and the education level in developing countries. Many studies such as the Stern review (2007) or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
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We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well‐being in another industrialized country, more …
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after the disaster. This natural disaster, however, caused a compositional change in the first-year student population, with … a substantial increase in the number of students aged 21 or above. This is likely to have been driven by post-disaster …
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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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tsunami disaster and other charitable donations. The empirical evidence suggests that donations specifically for the victims …
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