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Confined to stay : natural disasters and Indonesia's migration ban
Cinque, Andrea; Reiners, Lennart - 2022
This paper investigates the effects of international migration restrictions on communities' capacity to absorb income … migration as an adaptive strategy. Relying on a panel of the universe of Indonesian villages, we use a triple difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285575
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Sitting on a volcano : domestic violence in Indonesia following two volcano eruptions
Schwefer, Maximilian - 2018
domestic violence. I use data from 2,024 families in Indonesia, of which a subset has been exposed to two eruptions. Findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011918365
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Assessing vulnerability before, during and after a natural disaster in fragile regions : case study of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka and Indonesia
Birkmann, Jörn (contributor) - 2008
analysis of the situation in Sri Lanka and Indonesia within the context of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The author presents … ; natural hazards ; fragile regions ; Sri Lanka ; Indonesia ; coastal regions ; tsunami …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003725505
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Reconstruction after a major disaster : lessons from the post-Tsunami experience in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand
Jayasuriya, Sisira K.; McCawley, Peter - 2008
This paper examines several aspects of the rehabilitation and reconstruction program that followed the 2004 tsunami in Asia. Almost 230,000 people died in the disaster. We focus on two main issues: aid delivery and reconstruction policy following the disaster. Although issues such as immediate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003855419
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Risk-taking behavior in the wake of natural disasters
Cameron, Lisa Ann; Shah, Manisha - 2012
disasters. We conduct standard risk games (using real money) with randomly selected individuals in Indonesia and find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575341
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Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters
Cameron, Lisa A. - 2012
disasters. We conduct standard risk games (using real money) with randomly selected individuals in Indonesia and find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099808
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Using Insurance Instruments to Improve Disaster Risk Finance in Indonesia
He, Chusu - 2020
This paper is an overview of how insurance instruments could be used in Indonesia to improve disaster risk finance (the … existing arrangements in Indonesia for preparing for and responding to disasters, including the efforts of an active Indonesian … as a large geographically diverse middle-income country, Indonesia is well placed to employ insurance instruments for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012849913
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Evolution of Risk Aversion over Five Years after a Major Natural Disaster
Ingwersen, Nicholas; Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Thomas, Duncan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The impact of exposure to a major unanticipated natural disaster on the evolution of survivors' attitudes toward risk is examined, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in combination with rich population-representative longitudinal survey data...
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Do Natural Disasters Really Lead to Forced Migration? Evidence from Indonesia
Tse, Chun Wing - 2011
disasters shape household moving pattern in Indonesia. As household migration takes various forms, I separate it into two …The paper examines the claim of forced migration due to increasing environmental calamities by studying how natural … different types which are (1) split migration and (2) moving of the entire household. Contrary to our intuitive understanding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014042923
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Rental Affordability in the Wake of Natural Disasters
An, Brian; Jakabovics, Andrew; Orlando, Anthony W.; … - 2022
Natural disasters have been increasing in intensity at the same time that rental affordability has been declining in many cities. The intersection of these two trends presents an important challenge for policymakers as well as an insightful test for economic theory. This paper presents a new...
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