Eisensee, Thomas; Strömberg, David - In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics 122 (2007) 2, pp. 693-728
This paper studies the influence of mass media on U.S. government response to approximately 5,000 natural disasters occurring between 1968 and 2002. These disasters took nearly 63,000 lives and affected 125 million people per year. We show that U.S. relief depends on whether the disaster occurs...