earthquake’s intensity. Females aged 4 to 9 have 0.53 fewer years. Children of unskilled workers and educated mothers experience …This paper provides causal evidence of the long-term consequences of the earthquake that hit Guatemala in 1976 on the … schools destroyed, and the percentage of people made homeless by the disaster, with individual survey data from the 2000 …

demands more redistribution. Adverse shocks, like earthquakes, strengthen the belief that random "bad luck" can frustrate the … events that occurred in Italy in the last three decades, the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009. We assemble a novel dataset by … matching information on the ground acceleration registered throughout the National Strong Motion Network during the earthquake …

Disasters caused by natural hazards, such as earthquakes or hurricanes, have many adverse consequences associated with … the physical damage they cause. Here, we show that the very name given to a disaster can also lead to adverse consequences …. We argue that the name used for a disaster is significant, and is distinct from the physical event itself. Specifically …

This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in … to 2020 for 31 provinces and 429 counties to study the impact of the 2003 Bam earthquake in the Iranian Kerman Province … statistically significant boost in economic activity in the years following the earthquake. This increase in local economic activity …

This paper investigates the critical role of culture for economic recovery after natural disasters. Using Hurricane … religious adherence and larger shares of ancestors with disaster experiences mutually mitigate this detrimental effect from the … disaster. Religious adherence further dampens anxiety after Hurricane Katrina, which potentially spur economic recovery. We …