quality of aid delivered and social agendas pursued across neighboring villages in a set disaster context. We model the … agencies. We analyze three waves of survey data on fishermen and fishing villages in Aceh, Indonesia from 2005-2009, following …

flood or earthquake exhibit more risk aversion. Experiencing a natural disaster causes people to perceive that they now face …We investigate whether experiencing a natural disaster affects risk-taking behavior. We conduct standard risk games … (using real money) with randomly selected individuals in rural Indonesia. We find that individuals who recently suffered a …

children in the disaster are significantly more likely to bear additional children after the tsunami. This response explains …

2010 earthquake in Chile and the 2011 earthquake in Japan. In both cases there was an immediate and persistent effect on … product availability. The number of goods available for sale fell 32% in Chile and 17% in Japan from the day of the disaster … suggests a bigger role for supply disruptions that restricted the ability of retailers to re-stock goods after the earthquake …

This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake on the spatial distribution of economic … activity in the American West. Using variation in the potential damage intensity of the earthquake, we show that more severely … attractive migration destinations in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, which permanently changed the spatial …

The Messina-Reggio Calabria Earthquake (1908) was the most devastating natural disaster in modern European history. It …

tsunami for a population-representative sample of residents of Aceh, Indonesia who were differentially exposed to the disaster … scarring effects of the event itself. We examine survival at and in the five years after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and … loss associated with elevated mortality risks in the five years after the disaster among adults age 50 or older at the time …