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We consider a linear panel event-study design in which unobserved confounds may be related both to the outcome and to the policy variable of interest. We provide sufficient conditions to identify the causal effect of the policy by exploiting covariates related to the policy only through the...
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This paper uses the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China as a natural experiment to examine how the housing market reacted … analyze the pricing behavior of units in lower versus upper floors before and after the earthquake. We observe that average … in the first and second floor, considerably increased for several months after the earthquake. This relative pricing …
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2010 earthquake in Chile and the 2011 earthquake in Japan. In both cases there was an immediate and persistent effect on … suggests a bigger role for supply disruptions that restricted the ability of retailers to re-stock goods after the earthquake …
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activity in the American West. Using variation in the potential damage intensity of the earthquake, we show that more severely …This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake on the spatial distribution of economic … attractive migration destinations in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, which permanently changed the spatial …
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energy supply is well recognized, there has also been public concern over potential risks such as damage to buildings and …
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2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Exploiting the panels of nationally representative surveys on risk preferences, we find … that men who experienced greater intensity of the Earthquake became more risk tolerant after the Earthquake. Furthermore … women. Finally, the effects on men's risk preferences are persistent even five years after the Earthquake at almost the same …
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We investigate the effect of sovereign risk on credit supply, using August 1999 Earthquake as an exogenous shock …
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scarring effects of the event itself. We examine survival at and in the five years after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and …
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effects of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a shock that immediately reduced United States. GNP by 1.5-1.8 percentage points … the Federal Reserve. In this study, we identify the San Francisco earthquake as the shock that triggered the chain of …
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influx into Florida public schools following the Haitian earthquake of 2010 using unique matched birth and schooling records … earthquake or in the two years that follow, regardless of the socioeconomic status, grade level, ethnicity, or birthplace of …
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