With the shift from a hazard-centered disaster paradigm to one that places emphasis on
vulnerability and resilience, disasters triggered by natural hazards have begun to be …

Adverse environmental exposures—war and violence, natural disasters, escalating heat,
worsening air quality—experienced in pregnancy are consequential for multiple domains of …

Disasters can have long lasting effects, but understanding the breadth, variety and longevity
of their effects can be challenging. This paper examines the long term effects and …

Existing studies typically find that natural disasters have negative economic consequences,
resulting in, at best, a recovery to trend after initial losses or, at worst, longer term sustained …

Do negative shocks in origin countries encourage or inhibit international migration? What
roles do networks play in modifying out-migration responses? The answers to these …

We exploit the quasi-random spatial and temporal nature of ground tremors to evaluate the
long-term impact of the 1988 earthquake on educational outcomes among affected children …

While evidence on the linkages between migration and climate is starting to emerge, the
subject remains largely under-researched at regional scale. Knowledge on the matter is …

We simulate the short-and long-term distributional consequences of COVID-19 in the four
largest Latin American economies: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. We show that …

We consider a new, flexible and easy-to-implement method to estimate thecausal effects of
an intervention on a single treated unit when a control group is not available and which …

One of the largest earthquake disasters in Turkish history occurred on February 6, 2023. The
earthquakes impacted ten provinces greatly, which increased its destructive effect …