Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and … each of these methods. Not just those ruling at the time of the earthquakes, but also other parties which were in power …

This paper examines the effect of the L'Aquila earthquake on the academic performance of the students of the local … of L'Aquila before and after the earthquake with changes in educational outcomes during the same time period among … students enrolled at other Central Italian universities. The empirical results suggest that while this natural disaster has …

entire world for the period 1992-2013 we find that earthquakes reduce both light growth rates and light levels significantly …We analyze the impact of earthquakes on nighttime lights at a sub-national level, i.e. on grids of different size. We … argue that existing studies on the impact of natural disasters on economic development have several important limitations …

exposure of children to the shock. The paper uniquely identifies both the short- and medium-term impacts of the earthquake …This paper studies the impact of the 1999 Colombian Earthquake on child nutrition and schooling. The identification … strategy combines household survey data with event data on the timing and location of the earthquake, exploiting the exogenous …

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 … suggests that natural disasters are likely to exacerbate differences in economic and social development …

informational advantage. I study this issue using data on take-up rates of earthquake insurance in California, where there is both a …

effect of disaster-related shock on psychological conditions such as happiness. Therefore, a trustful society is invulnerable … how much this relationship depends on environmental conditions. The Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 is considered one … of the most catastrophic events in human history. This disaster caused not only physical damage for Japanese people, but …

This paper examines the effect of the L'Aquila earthquake on the academic performance of the students of the local … of L'Aquila before and after the earthquake with changes in educational outcomes during the same time period among … students enrolled at other Central Italian universities. The empirical results suggest that while this natural disaster has …

This paper estimates the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on the household decision about children’s time allocation …. Using original data and objective geological measures, we exploit the fact that the earthquake might affect the decision … about children’s time through its magnitude and household’s revealed vulnerability. Separated measures of the earthquake …

Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, using panel surveys before and after the earthquake. When the change in time … the earthquake in 2012 and 2013, and have been subsiding thereafter. On the other hand, these changes appeared in females … in 2016 and 2017, i.e., after a lag since the earthquake. …