response of international reserves to shocks by using a quasi-experimental setup and focusing on earthquakes. The estimation is … done on a panel of 103 countries over the period 1979–2016. We find that in the five years following a large earthquake (i …) countries exposed accumulate reserves, for precautionary reasons, (ii) trade openness is positively associated with the post-earthquake …

This paper reviews the effect of environmental disasters on migration. Although there is an increase of environmental … disasters and migration over the past years, the relationship is complex. While some authors find that environmental disasters …

and economic exogeniety of windstorms-hurricanes and typhoons-and earthquakes this paper assess the often contrasting …

We compare the realised impact of terrorism and disasters linked to natural hazards. Using fifty years of data from two … databases covering 99 percent of the global population, we find that natural hazard disasters were more then 20 times more … cross-peril difference was in Asia, where natural hazard disasters took 324 million Lifeyears, while terrorism took ten …

indicates that the main underlying channel is a shock on families' wealth. -- child development ; natural disaster ; wealth … and education of a specific shock: housing damages caused by a super typhoon. Our results reveal negative effects on … shock …