The received wisdom is that the devastation wrought by the 1995 Kobe earthquake did not have any long-term impact on … the Japanese economy, nor much impact on Kobe itself. We re-evaluate the evidence using a new methodology, synthetic … control, and find a persistent and still continuing adverse impact of the quake on the economy of Kobe more than 15 years …

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 …

In this paper, a unique post-earthquake survey designed to provide a rapid assessment of food insecurity in Haiti is … level of subsistence or because of earthquakerelated losses. Pre-earthquake participation to programs appears to be an … important determinant of post-earthquake participation. What is more, cash-forwork is very rarely declared as the main source of …

Japan's most powerful known earthquake struck at 2:46p.m. on Friday, March 11, 2011. We study the unusual trading …, purchases were significantly less than sales in the week after the earthquake. Foreign investors typically show positive … feedback and momentum trading patterns. However, in the week after the earthquake, they seemed to have stabilized the Japanese …

average level of education in a way to be easily understandable and practicable. After the Bam earthquake, local community …