Timely assistance is a precondition for effective emergency relief in the aftermath of natural disasters. This paper …-onset natural disasters between 2000 and 2022. Identification relies on daily variation in donor responses and a series of …

only 3 percent of the total estimated economic damages caused by the disasters. The main determinants of post-disaster aid …This paper examines Official Development Assistance (ODA) in the aftermath of large natural disasters between 1970 and … 2008. Using an event-study approach, the paper finds that while the median increase in ODA is 18 percent compared to pre-disaster …

appeal triggered in response to the destructive 2015 Nepal earthquake. Specifically, we investigate the extent to which the … funding decision by aid donors. Our results show that aid allocation is associated with geophysical estimates of the disaster …