The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was an extremely destructive event in Aceh, Indonesia, killing over 160,000 people and … a daunting array of challenges. At the population level, questions of how the disaster affected children's and parents … Recovery (STAR) to examine how disaster exposure affects educational aspirations and eventual attainment. We find that damage …

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

The impact of exposure to a major unanticipated natural disaster on the evolution of survivors' attitudes toward risk … assume greater financial risk in the short-term while rebuilding their lives after the disaster …

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 …

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

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 …

COVID-19 has demonstrated the challenges that policymakers, insurers, businesses, and employees face when disaster …

Despite escalating disaster losses and predicted increases in weather-related catastrophes, takeup of protective …

impact of COVID-19. A costly disaster series is constructed over the sample 1980:1-2020:04 and the dynamic impact of a … disaster shock on economic activity and on uncertainty is studied using a VAR. While past natural disasters are local in nature … of large disaster shocks. Even in a fairly conservative case where COVID-19 is a 5-month shock with its magnitude …

We provide the planner's solution to a model where households learn from exogenous natural disaster arrivals about … since disaster leads to pessimistic arrival-rate beliefs and taxes or mandates to fund mitigation, which reduce consumption …