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Social capital in a crisis : NGO responses to the 2015 Nepalese earthquakes
Hillig, Zoe; Connell, John - In: Asia pacific viewpoint 59 (2018) 3, pp. 309-322
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Lucrative disaster : financialization, accumulation and postearthquake reconstruction in Nepal
Paudel, Dinesh; Rankin, Katharine N.; Le Billon, Philippe - In: Economic geography 96 (2020) 2, pp. 137-160
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Change in Time Preferences : Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake
Akesaka, Mika - 2018
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 …
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Change in time preferences : evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake
Akesaka, Mika - 2018
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011822197
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Earthquake hazard and civic capital
Buonanno, Paolo; Plevani, Giacomo; Puca, Marcello - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800402
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Earthquake hazard and civic capital
Buonanno, Paolo; Plevani, Giacomo; Puca, Marcello - In: European journal of political economy 78 (2023), pp. 1-20
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Chapter 10. Civic Capital as the Missing Link
Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 417-480). 2011
This chapter reviews the recent debate about the role of social capital in economics. We argue that all the difficulties this concept has encountered in economics are due to a vague and excessively broad definition. For this reason, we restrict social capital to the set of values and beliefs...
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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 … 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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The long-term impact of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on wage distribution
Ōtake, Fumio; Okuyama, Naoko; Sasaki, Masaru; Yasui, Kengo - 2014
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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Theoretical analysis of urban land use change by information provision for Nankai Trough Huge Earthquake in Japan
Miyata, Yuzuru; Shibusawa, Hiroyuki; Mizuno, Kentaro - 2015
are two districts where the vulnerabilities to the earthquake in the two districts are different. That is, Toyohashi City … is divided into two districts, one is safe for the earthquake while another one is risky for the earthquake. And then … the same damage when the earthquake occurs. However, if disaster risk information is provided, the land rent shows a …
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