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The Canterbury earthquakes in September 2010 and February 2011 caused major upheaval to the people of the region. The second quake killed 185 people, forced many from their homes, and closed Christchurch's central business district. This paper examines the consequential effects on business in...
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The German response to the Fukushima nuclear power plant incident was possibly the most significant change of policy towards nuclear power outside Japan, leading to a sudden and very significant shift in the underlying power generation structure in Germany. This provides a very useful natural...
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various measures of social capital are associated with disaster recovery from 2008 Sichuan earthquake. We find that households … offer monetary and material support after the earthquake, which also leads to more government aid received. This suggests … that Spring Festival network members may assist the earthquake-affected households to apply for and obtain more government …
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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 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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Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption as well, and exhibited a great deal of incompetence. How voters responded to these in the next...
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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 …
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characteristics and by the naturally-induced geographic variation in the severity of the shock. We show that the Earthquake Support …
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We treat the Canterbury (Christchurch) earthquake sequence as a potential source of new risk information to home buyers … in New Zealand. We compare pre- and post-earthquake sales of properties in two other urban areas of the country (one with … high and one with low seismicity) to estimate how the pricing of earthquake-related risks changed following the Canterbury …
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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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