Trust, Risk, and Time Preferences After a Natural Disaster: Experimental Evidence from Thailand

Cassar, Alessandra; Healy, Andrew; Kessler, Carl von

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.12.042

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“…There are parallels in related literatures, including findings that victims of crime are more likely to participate in community and political meetings, be interested in politics, and engage in group leadership (Bateson 2012). Other emerging evidence exploring the effects of post-election violence (Becchetti, Conzo, and Romeo 2014), and earthquake and tsunami damage (Caló-Blanco et al 2015;Cassar, Healy, and Von Kessler 2011;Rao et al 2011) also mimics the main finding of this paper, namely that survival threats tend to enhance local cooperation. We expect that work in these areas will yield new insights about what psychological, economic, and social mechanisms could lead those who experience violence to shift to more cooperative behavior.…”

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Can War Foster Cooperation?

Bauer

Blattman

Chytilová

et al. 2016

Journal of Economic Perspectives

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In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus while war has many negative legacies for individuals and societies, it appears to leave a positive legacy in terms of local cooperation and civic engagement. We discuss, synthesize, and reanalyze the emerging body of evidence and weigh alternative explanations. There is some indication that war violence enhances in-group or “parochial” norms and preferences especially, a finding that, if true, suggests that the rising social cohesion we document need not promote broader peace.

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confidence: 75%

Can War Foster Cooperation?

Bauer

Blattman

Chytilová

et al. 2016

Journal of Economic Perspectives

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“…Collier and Hoeffler (2004) present that man-made disasters such as civil wars increase homicide. On the contrary, Cassar et al (2011) show that experiencing natural disasters foster social trust. Siegel et al (1999) and Zahran et al (2009) examine the disaster impact on crimes and find mixed results.…”

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Religious Fractionalisation and Crimes in Disaster-Affected Communities: Survey Evidence from Bangladesh

Shoji

2017

The Journal of Development Studies

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This study employs unique household data collected in cyclone-affected communities in Bangladesh to uncover the impact of religious fractionalisation on victimization to crime after the disaster. The identification strategy relies on two natures of the study area: 1) the religious composition is stable; and 2) the pre-disaster socio-economic status of households is uncorrelated with religious fractionalisation and disaster damage, after controlling for the observed characteristics. The findings suggest that following a natural disaster, households in disaster-affected and religiously fractionalised communities are more likely to be victims than those in non-fractionalised communities. This is caused by the misallocation of disaster reliefs in fractionalised communities.JEL Classification: O12; Z12; K42

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“…People involved in community groups may also have better knowledge of natural hazards, their impacts, and how to prepare for them because participating in community activities provides opportunities to discuss natural hazards and people's experiences of them [44]. In regards to the cognitive dimensions of social capital, people's beliefs regarding the generosity of others can support mutually dependent collective action [45,46]. Social trust is also important to consider because it influences people's perceptions of others' motives and the credibility of the information they provide [47].…”

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Perceptions of Cyclone Preparedness: Assessing the Role of Individual Adaptive Capacity and Social Capital in the Wet Tropics, Australia

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Given projections of future climate-related disasters, understanding the conditions that facilitate disaster preparedness is critical to achieving sustainable development. Here, we studied communities within the Wet Tropics bioregion, Australia to explore whether people's perceived preparedness for a future cyclone relates to their: (1) perceived individual adaptive capacity (in terms of flexibility and capacity to plan and learn); and (2) structural and cognitive social capital. We found that people's perceived cyclone preparedness was only related to their perceived individual flexibility in the face of change. Given that people's perceived cyclone preparedness was related to individualistic factors, it is plausible that individualism-collectivism orientations influence people's perceptions at an individual level. These results suggest that in the Wet Tropics region, enhancing people's psychological flexibility may be an important step when preparing for future cyclones. Our study highlights the need to tailor disaster preparedness initiatives to the region in question, and thus our results may inform disaster risk management and sustainable development policies.

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Trust, Risk, and Time Preferences After a Natural Disaster: Experimental Evidence from Thailand

Cited by 412 publications

References 32 publications

Can War Foster Cooperation?

Can War Foster Cooperation?

Religious Fractionalisation and Crimes in Disaster-Affected Communities: Survey Evidence from Bangladesh

Perceptions of Cyclone Preparedness: Assessing the Role of Individual Adaptive Capacity and Social Capital in the Wet Tropics, Australia

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