addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility … response may be induced as children can be used to supplement household income. This paper analyzes three high mortality … positive fertility response to exposure to these large-scale natural disasters in addition to the response to child mortality …

Governments can significantly reduce earthquake mortality by enforcing quake-proof construction regulation. We examine … why many governments do not. First, mortality is lower in countries with higher earthquake propensity, where the payoffs … to investments in mortality prevention are greater. Second, the opportunity costs of these investments are higher in …