earthquake protection in Quebec and British Columbia is influenced by the default option and the structure of the insurance plan …. Homeowners in both provinces were given the opportunity to purchase protection against earthquake losses when presented with one … pool rather than the current private insurance plan increases the likelihood of purchasing earthquake protection by 151 …

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 …

disaster in modern European history. It occurred when overseas mass emigration from southern Italy was at its peak and …The Messina-Reggio Calabria Earthquake (1908) was the deadliest earthquake and arguably the most devastating natural … international borders were open, making emigration a widespread phenomenon and a readily available option for disaster relief. We …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We investigate the effect of sovereign risk on credit supply, using August 1999 Earthquake as an exogenous shock …

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

We investigate whether individuals' risk preferences change after experiencing a natural disaster, specifically, the … 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 …