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The Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011 was the biggest earthquake recorded in Japanese seismic history, and … the fourth largest recorded in the world. The scope of the disaster far exceeded that of the Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 …
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This paper analyzes how policy changes affect shareholder wealth in the context of environmental regulation. We exploit the unique and unexpected German reaction to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which involved the immediate shutdown of almost half of Germany's nuclear reactors while...
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Earthquake, we appraise psychological suffering from disaster-related news through the experienced utility approach. We take … subjective well-being in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake. Although a pale was cast over the whole society, we found …
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This paper analyzes the impacts of the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in …
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the last decade or so, and not just the incumbents in 2002. The party in charge of the ministry responsible for earthquake …
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The two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999, caused enormous amounts of death and destruction, and exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations, as a factor magnifying the disaster. The opposition parties and one of the incumbent...
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The two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999, caused enormous amounts of death and destruction, and exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations, as a factor magnifying the disaster. The opposition parties and one of the incumbent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320523
This paper studies the impact of the 1999 Colombian Earthquake on child nutrition and schooling. The identification … strategy combines household survey data with event data on the timing and location of the earthquake, exploiting the exogenous … exposure of children to the shock. The paper uniquely identifies both the short- and medium-term impacts of the earthquake …
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Exploiting Tangshan 1976 - the deadliest earthquake in the 20th century - as a source of exogenous variation, we … estimate the long-run effect of a historical shock on contemporary socio-economic outcomes. Cohorts born after the earthquake …
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