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Managing the impact of climate on migration : evidence from Mexico

Chort, Isabelle; De La Rupelle, Maëlys - 2022

investigate the mitigating impact of an agricultural cashtransfer program (PROCAMPO) and a disaster fund (Fonden) on the migration …

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Climate change, armed conflicts and resilience

D'Angeli, Mariagrazia; Marin, Giovanni; Paglialunga, Elena - 2022

In recent years, there has been rapid development of the literature linking climate change and armed conflicts. Although no conclusionary evidence has been found of a direct link between climate change and armed conflicts, still climate change has been addressed as an important trigger,...

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Estimating the direct economic damage of the earthquake in Haiti

Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Powell, Andrew; Becerra, Oscar - 2010

January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead …

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(Not) going to school in times of climate change : natural disasters and student achievement

Gust, Sarah - 2024

their impact on student achievement by combining US county-level data on FEMA disaster declarations with the Stanford … post disaster. Counties with above-average per-pupil expenditure show quicker recovery. The study sheds light on effect … heterogeneity by gender, socio-economic background, and disaster characteristics. …

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The Better Trigger : Insuring Against Disaster Risk

Teh, Tse-Ling - 2014

Index triggers have enabled the extension of insurance to disaster risks by providing a simple mechanism to determine … insurance payment. Disaster risks are notoriously difficult to insure against due to the covariant nature of risks, moral hazard …

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The impact of tropical storms on international trade : evidence from Eastern Caribbean Small Island Developing States

Mohan, Preeya - 2023

Eastern Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have a high dependence on international trade for income, employment and poverty reduction given their extreme openness, small market size, narrow range of resources and productive capabilities and specialized economic structures, making...

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Post-disaster spillovers : evidence from Iranian provinces

Fischer, Sven - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 5, pp. 1-26

This paper studies the relationship between natural disasters and economic growth in the disaster-prone country of Iran … account the disaster type, which is mainly earthquake and flood in the case of Iran, the results suggest that the positive … statistically significant direct effect of natural disasters on economic growth in the short term. When including time-lags, we can …

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Are Natural Disasters Good for Economic Growth?

Ahlerup, Pelle - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

growth? This paper shows that natural disasters on average have a positive association with subsequent economic performance …

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Natural disasters, growth and institutions: A tale of two earthquakes

Barone, Guglielmo; Mocetti, Sauro - In: Journal of Urban Economics 84 (2014) C, pp. 52-66

-quake institutional quality. As a result, our evidence suggests that unanticipated local shocks are likely to change long run growth rates …

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Natural disasters, growth and institutions: a tale of two earthquakes

Barone, Guglielmo; Mocetti, Sauro - Banca d'Italia - 2014

We examine the impact of natural disasters on GDP per capita by applying the synthetic control approach. Our analysis encompasses two large-scale earthquakes that occurred in two different Italian regions in 1976 and 1980. We show that the short-term effects are negligible in both regions,...

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