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children in the disaster are significantly more likely to bear additional children after the tsunami. This response explains …
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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 … flood or earthquake exhibit more risk aversion. Experiencing a natural disaster causes people to perceive that they now face …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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families are able to insure consumption against major illness using a unique panel data set from Indonesia that combines …
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This paper discusses the recent changes in the market for catastrophe risk. These risks have traditionally been distributed through the insurance and reinsurance systems. However, because insurance companies tend to share relatively small amounts of their cat exposures and because insurance...
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This paper examines the market for catastrophe event risk -- i.e., financial claims that are linked to losses associated with natural hazards, such as hurricanes and earthquakes. This market is in transition as new approaches for transferring risk are being explored. The paper studies several...
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The impacts of environmental change on human outcomes often depend on local exposures and behavioral responses that are challenging to observe with traditional administrative or sensor data. We show how data from private pollution sensors, cell phones, social media posts, and internet search...
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COVID-19 has demonstrated the challenges that policymakers, insurers, businesses, and employees face when disaster …
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