Media coverage of humanitarian crises is widely believed to influence charitable giving, yet this assertion has received little empirical scrutiny. Using Internet donations after the 2004 tsunami as a case study, we show that media coverage of disasters has a dramatic impact on donations to...

This paper examines the relationship between the media coverage of a major natural disaster and charitable giving for disaster relief. In particular, it is centrally concerned with three questions: first, whether media coverage of Cyclone Nargis in May 2008 is correlated with charitable giving...

Natural disasters give rise to loss and damage and may affect subjective expectations about the prevalence and severity of future disasters. These expectations might then in turn shape individuals’ investment behaviors, potentially affecting their incomes in subsequent years. As part of an...