. Because using a country's own disaster exposure as an instrument for aid inflows violates exogeneity assumptions, I instead … use the disaster exposure of a country's "aid neighbors," defined as its competitors for aid from donors. Using aid …

remittances increase after a disaster, thus contributing ex post to the reconstruction process. At the same time, we find that …

A substantial share of the world's children reside in disaster-prone areas and suffer from stunted growth. Child growth …

2008. Using an event-study approach, the paper finds that while the median increase in ODA is 18 percent compared to pre-disaster … only 3 percent of the total estimated economic damages caused by the disasters. The main determinants of post-disaster aid … strategic behavior on the part of donors determine the size of post-disaster aid surges …