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 eart...

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Main Authors: William duPont, Ilan Noy, Yoko Okuyama, Yasuyuki Sawada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4591010?pdf=render