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on human health in Chile, finding substantial impacts on both classes of outcomes. We use data on 15 wildfire seasons …
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Using historical data on early settlers to the United States, this paper tests and confirms the “Culture of Honor” hypothesis by socio-psychologists Dov Cohen and Richard Nisbett (1994, 1996). This hypothesis argues that the high prevalence of homicides in the US South stems from the fact...
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January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead … and missing (i.e., the range of mortality that the earthquake is estimated to have caused) using Haiti s economic and …
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This study estimates the effects of the 1970 Ancash earthquake on human capital accumulation on the affected and … affected by the earthquake in utero completed on average 0. 5 years less schooling while females affected by the earthquake … completed 0. 8 years less schooling. Surprisingly, those whose mothers were affected at birth by the earthquake have 0. 4 less …
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