students enrolled at other Central Italian universities. The empirical results suggest that while this natural disaster has …

We estimate whether risk preferences are affected by traumatic events by using a unique survey of Sri Lankan twins … civil war, validated measures of mental health and risk preferences, and a rich set of control variables. Our estimation … wealth shocks and/or changes in mental health. We find that both events lead to less risk aversion, a result that is not …

-post microeconomic effects of natural disasters on the accumulation of human capital, focusing on consumption, nutrition, education and …, education, health and many income-generating processes. Furthermore, some of these detrimental effects are both large and long … households once they are hit by a disaster. The paper also lays out existing knowledge gaps, particularly in regard to the need …

We study whether natural disasters affect risk-taking behavior exploiting geographic variation in exposure to natural … disasters. We conduct standard risk games (using real money) with randomly selected individuals in Indonesia and find that … individuals who recently suffered a flood or earthquake exhibit more risk aversion than individuals living in otherwise like …

tsunami disaster and other charitable donations. The empirical evidence suggests that donations specifically for the victims …

interesting in the migration rates and the education level in developing countries. Many studies such as the Stern review (2007 …

We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well‐being in another industrialized country, more … monetized health costs worth €250 per distressed citizen – particularly among risk averse women …