Existing research is inconclusive regarding the longer-term economic effects of earthquakes. We examine the medium-run impacts of the 2010 earthquake in Chile, the sixth-largest ever recorded, using value-added tax collection as a proxy for economic activity at the municipal level and a measure of local ground-shaking intensity. We find that the affected municipalities suffered a relevant and persistent drop in their economic activity of about 10%, 8–9 years after the event. We discuss the plausibility of the assumption of conditional parallel trends and show that the overall results are robust to using alternative estimation methods.
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Medium-run local economic effects of a major earthquake
Abstract
- Investigadores del Centro
- Paula Andrea Aguirre Aparicio
- Revista
- Journal of Economic Geography
- Área de investigación
- Análisis del riesgo y mitigación
- Autores
- Paula Andrea Aguirre Aparicio · Rodrigo Valdés · Kenzo Asahi · Diego Diaz-Rioseco e Ignacio Riveros
- Temáticas
- Vulnerabilidad física y social
- Año
- 2022
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