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how much this relationship depends on environmental conditions. The Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 is considered one … probe how the relationship between trust and happiness was influenced by the Great East Japan Earthquake by comparing the … same individuals before and after the earthquake. A fixed-effects estimation showed that there is a statistically well …
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.1-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico City in September 2017. Our findings reveal that the disaster resulted in an 11% decrease in …
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NGOs are widely perceived to raise their flag in humanitarian hot-spots with strong media presence in order to attract higher private donations. We assess this hypothesis by comparing the changes in donations between US-based NGOs with and without activities in the four countries most affected...
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In this paper we investigate the long-run relationship between disasters and societal trust. A growing body research suggests that factors such as income inequality, ethnic fractionalization, and religious heritage are important determinants of social capital in general, and trust in particular....
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Individuals are at their most mental plasticity in their impressionable years (ages 18-25 years) forming long-term attitudes and behaviours essential to functioning in a society, such as trust. In this paper we ask how exposure to natural disasters within the impressionable years may affect the...
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January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead … and missing (i.e., the range of mortality that the earthquake is estimated to have caused) using Haiti s economic and …
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This paper explores the effects of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on the wages of people in the area of the … earthquake over the 17 years after its occurrence and identified which part of the wage distribution has been most affected by … shows that the negative impact of the earthquake still affects the mean wages of male workers. Second, the DFL decomposition …
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We measure the longer-term effect of a major earthquake on the local economy, using night-time light intensity measured … process. We focus on the destructive Canterbury Earthquake Sequence (CES) 2010 -2011 as our case study. Uniquely for this … economic recovery after the earthquake, but delayed payments were less affective and cash settlement of claims were more …
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the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. A qualitative approach was applied to collecting and processing data which consist of 114 … semi-structured interviews with earthquake-resettled households, six focus group discussions, interviews with community … recovery from the earthquake calls for reconstruction in multiple sectors. …
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to 2020 for 31 provinces and 429 counties to study the impact of the 2003 Bam earthquake in the Iranian Kerman Province … statistically significant boost in economic activity in the years following the earthquake. This increase in local economic activity … this period, the cultural importance of Bam, the severity of the earthquake, and the media attention. Additionally …
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