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Do natural disasters cause an excessive fear of heights? Evidence from the Wenchuan earthquake

This paper uses the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China to examine if the occurrence of a natural disaster can cause an excessive fear of living in upper floors. We rely on potential variations in earthquake risk perceptions by floor level to assess whether the pricing of apartments in lower versus up...

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Autores principales: Deng, Guoying, Gan, Li, Hernandez, Manuel A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7112347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32287490
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2015.10.002