Post-disaster aid and development of the manufacturing sector: Lessons from a natural experiment in China

Bulte, Erwin; Xu, Lihe; Zhang, Xiaobo

doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.10.019

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“…The statistically insignificant coefficients in columns (1) of Panels A and B imply that, despite the earthquake’s substantial negative shocks to income, post-disaster recovery policies may have been effective in offsetting these influences. For example, the 18 counties most damaged were paired with 18 of the richest provinces, where the latter were obliged to transfer at least 1% of their previous year’s revenue to the matched counties for three consecutive years (2008–2010; Bulte et al, 2018 ).…”

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Well-being Effects of Natural Disasters: Evidence from China’s Wenchuan Earthquake

Wang

2022

J Happiness Stud

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This study finds that the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, one of China’s most catastrophic earthquakes, substantially decreased victims’ subjective well-being even after incorporating the offsetting effects of post-disaster relief programs. This net well-being impact lasted for nearly 10 years and was on average equivalent to a loss of 67% of the average equivalized household income. Although the post-disaster measures largely restored income, health, and employment, they failed to prevent well-being losses due to family dissolution, as reflected in the higher rates of divorce and widowhood after the earthquake. We find that rural populations, older adults, the less educated, and residents without social insurance were more vulnerable to the earthquake shock. This study uses six waves of a nationally representative dataset of China and a difference-in-differences approach to identify the short- and long-term causal well-being effects of the Wenchuan earthquake. Deeper analyses on mechanisms and heterogeneity suggest that post-disaster policies should focus more on aspects beyond economic factors and on the well-being of disadvantaged populations in particular. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10902-022-00609-z.

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Well-being Effects of Natural Disasters: Evidence from China’s Wenchuan Earthquake

Wang

2022

J Happiness Stud

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“…Addition that, non-tradable sector's reaction may "crowd-in" or "crowed-out" the manufacturing development in short run. In other words, labor or capital may move within two sectors, because the relative price may be shaped (Bulte et al, 2018). Better road density counties have the higher productivity of service sectors and more service enterprises (Gao et al, 2015).…”

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“…But our study just focus on test the stock of road investment effect on economics, we do not argue that whether a county need road investment or not. vi The definition is consistence with Bulte et al (2018).…”

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“…When the road investment in the local area, in short run, it may rise the demand of non-tradable goods, and relative price and labor demand of non-tradable goods is increased, the average wage of local area is increasing at the end. But price of tradable goods is determined by international market, non-skill labor move from labor-intensive manufacturing firm to non-tradable sectors (Bulte et al, 2018). In other word, the price volatility is deference by sectors, and wage gap are exist between two sectors.…”

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Does Road Investment Really Promote the Export? Evidence from Sichuan County-level Data of China

Xu¹,

Liu²,

Yan³

2018

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Whether road infrastructure promotes export is still a concerned issue debated in the previous studies. In this paper, we conduct a panel data using two data sources from year 2003 to 2013, examining the relationship between road investment and export. The primary results show that road investment significantly restricts local export. A further test indicates that the road infrastructure benefits service sector, 1) abstract more private capital investment on service sector than manufacturing sector, 2) reduce the employee of tradable sector. Then manufacturing sector was constrained. The results are robust when a set test is carried out.

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“…China is one of the countries with the highest incidence and frequency of geological disasters in the world (Li et al, 2015;Hou et al, 2016;Xiao et al, 2022). Geological disasters have long been a persistent threat to the development of urban and rural construction in China (Bulte et al, 2018;Ao et al, 2021;Zeng et al, 2021;Zhou et al, 2021;Pu et al, 2022), especially in mountainous rural areas that are more disaster-prone (Xu et al, 2020;Qing et al, 2021;Gan et al, 2022). According to a report released by the Ministry of Natural Resources of China, a total of 7,840 geological disasters occurred in China in 2020, resulting in 139 deaths (missing), 58 injuries, and direct economic losses of 50.2 billion yuan (http://vod.mnr.gov.cn/).…”

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Spatial distribution and influencing factors of mountainous geological disasters in southwest China: A fine-scale multi-type assessment

Shu

Chen

Amani-Beni

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Front. Environ. Sci.

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Geological disasters have long been a constant threat to socioeconomic development and human life and property. Many studies focus on the occurred geological disasters and ignore the potential risk events. Fine-scale multi-type analysis of Potential Geological Disasters Spots (PGDSs) is a necessary but insufficiently explored research field in China’s mountainous areas. Taking Meigu County (Sichuan Province, Southwest China), a typical disaster-prone region, as the study area. Average nearest neighbor (ANN), standard deviational ellipse (SDE), kernel density estimation (KDE), and ordinary least squares (OLS) regression are used to assess the spatial distribution of potential geological disasters spots and their influencing factors. The findings show that: potential geological disasters spots have a significant spatial heterogeneity and exhibited a prominent clustering characteristic. They were distributed in an elevation range of 1,500–2000 m, which receives an average monthly rainfall of more than 240 mm, as well as in highly foliated (0.6 < Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) < 0.8), west-facing (247.5–292.5°), and slopes of 10–20°. In addition, slope, aspect, population density, and rainfall were found as the main influencing factors. The results provide practical rural development measures with support for potential geological disasters spots avoidance and preparedness.

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Post-disaster aid and development of the manufacturing sector: Lessons from a natural experiment in China

Cited by 19 publications

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Well-being Effects of Natural Disasters: Evidence from China’s Wenchuan Earthquake

Well-being Effects of Natural Disasters: Evidence from China’s Wenchuan Earthquake

Does Road Investment Really Promote the Export? Evidence from Sichuan County-level Data of China

Spatial distribution and influencing factors of mountainous geological disasters in southwest China: A fine-scale multi-type assessment

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