. For Guatemala, we find no robust statistically significant effects on these types of disasters. However, in Costa Rica, we …

Data shows that there has been a five-fold increase in the number of climate-related disasters that the world has … witnessed over the last fifty years. Just between 2000 and 2019, 7,348 reported disasters caused 1.23 million deaths, affecting … quick-onset disasters such as floods, typhoons, and cyclones have resulted in more damages and loss of lives in the past two …

index of historical physical impacts of natural disasters, social vulnerability, and institutional capacity was created. It … is found that historical impacts of climatological disasters are positively correlated with the per capita amount … received by region in order to prevent future natural disasters. Impacts of geological disaster, on the other hand, affect the …

This paper examines the short and long-run average causal impact of catastrophic natural disasters on economic growth … constructing synthetic control groups, taking advantage of the fact that the timing of large sudden natural disasters is an … exogenous event. It is found that only extremely large disasters have a negative effect on output, both in the short and long …