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The Long-Run Socio-Economic Consequences of a Large Disaster: The 1995 Earthquake in Kobe

We quantify the ‘permanent’ socio-economic impacts of the Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake in 1995 by employing a large-scale panel dataset of 1,719 cities, towns, and wards from Japan over three decades. In order to estimate the counterfactual—i.e., the Kobe economy without the earthquake—we u...

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Autores principales: duPont IV, William, Noy, Ilan, Okuyama, Yoko, Sawada, Yasuyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4591010/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26426998
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138714