Governments can significantly reduce earthquake mortality by implementing and enforcing quake-proof construction … actual earthquakes, mortality is lower in countries with higher earthquake propensity, where the payoffs to mortality … political incentives of governments to provide public goods to citizens. The opportunity costs of earthquake mortality …

earthquake exposure of a spatially accurate wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) database for China, covering a total of 1 … their flood protection standards. For earthquakes, we examine the exposure of WWTPs to earthquake hazards through both …

In this paper, a unique post-earthquake survey designed to provide a rapid assessment of food insecurity in Haiti is … impact on the food consumption score, whereas household pre-earthquake wealth did. This result demonstrates that the impact …

(DHS) available before the earthquake. Decomposing household assets changes into age and cohort effects, we use repeated … poverty than covariate shocks. Third, asset-wealth is characterized for households after the 2010 earthquake based on a survey … existence of poverty trap, it seems that those households who have lost the most due to the earthquake succeeded in recovering …

organizations and on-the-ground presence of foreigners following the 2005 earthquake in Northern Pakistan on local attitudes. They … show that four years after the earthquake, humanitarian assistance by foreigners and foreign organizations has left a …

This paper studies how potential work migrants infer mortality rates from incidents of migrant deaths. In the context … implies large changes in mortality rates perceived by potential migrants. Models of learning fallacies better explain the …

Persian Gulf countries. The experiment provides them with information on wages and mortality incidences in their choice … overestimate their mortality rate abroad, and that information on mortality incidences lowers this expectation. Potential migrants … experiment, the study estimates migration elasticities of 0.7 in expected earnings and 0.5 in expected mortality. The experiment …