Natural disasters and indicators of social cohesion.

Do adversarial environmental conditions create social cohesion? We provide new answers to this question by exploiting spatial and temporal variation in exposure to earthquakes across Chile. Using a variety of methods and controlling for a number of socio-economic variables, we find that exposure to...

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Main Authors: Aitor Calo-Blanco, Jaromír Kovářík, Friederike Mengel, José Gabriel Romero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5462365?pdf=render