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Impact of the 1999 earthquakes on the outcome of the 2002 parliamentary election in Turkey
Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - 2008
the last decade or so, and not just the incumbents in 2002. The party in charge of the ministry responsible for earthquake …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268575
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Persistent impact of natural disasters on child nutrition and schooling: Evidence from the 1999 Colombian earthquake
Bustelo, Monserrat; Arends-Kuenning, Mary P.; … - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282238
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Do natural disasters affect human capital? An assessment based on existing empirical evidence
Baez, Javier; de la Fuente, Alejandro; Santos, Indhira - 2010
The last few years have seen a notable increase in the number of studies investigating the causes and effects of natural disasters in many dimensions. This paper seeks to review and assess available empirical evidence on the ex-post microeconomic effects of natural disasters on the accumulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274681
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The re-building effect of hurricanes: evidence from employment in the US construction industry
Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2008
We examine the impact of hurricane strikes on the construction industry in US counties. To this end we use a measure of hurricane destruction derived from a wind field model and historical hurricane track data and employ this within a dynamic labour demand framework. Our results show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277116
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The Long-term Impact of the 1995 Hanshin–Awaji Earthquake on Wage Distribution
Ohtake, Fumio; Okuyama, Naoko; Sasaki, Masaru; Yasui, Kengo - 2014
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 … that the negative impact of the earthquake still affects the mean wages of male workers. Second, the DFL decomposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352260
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Maternal Stress during Pregnancy and Early Childhood Development
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Sánchez, Rafael - 2018
There is a consensus in the literature on the relevance of the first 1,000 days since conception in the development of a child's cognitive and non-cognitive skills. However, little is known of the determinants of these skills at that age, as previous literature has focused on the effect of in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873456
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The Effects of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake on Children's Nutrition and Education
Dodlova, Marina; Carias, Michelle Escobar; Grimm, Michael - 2023
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377098
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How policy changes affect shareholder wealth: The case of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
Betzer, André; Doumet, Markus; Rinne, Ulf - 2011
This paper analyzes how policy changes affect shareholder wealth in the context of environmental regulation. We exploit 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285992
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How Policy Changes Affect Shareholder Wealth: The Case of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster
Betzer, André; Doumet, Markus; Rinne, Ulf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper analyzes how policy changes affect shareholder wealth in the context of environmental regulation. We exploit 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220619
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Persistent Impact of Natural Disasters on Child Nutrition and Schooling: Evidence from the 1999 Colombian Earthquake
Bustelo, Monserrat; Arends-Kuenning, Mary P.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649818