Build back better ? Long-lasting impact of the 2010 earthquake in Haïti
This paper analyses the long-lasting effects of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on household well-being. Using original longitudinal data and objective geological measures, we estimate the impact over the whole country, and outside the Metropolitan Area of Port-au-Prince with difference-in-difference esti...
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2015
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| Acceso en línea: | http://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010067178 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=fr/fr-001&d=010067178oai |
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| Sumario: | This paper analyses the long-lasting effects of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on household well-being.
Using original longitudinal data and objective geological measures, we estimate the impact over the
whole country, and outside the Metropolitan Area of Port-au-Prince with difference-in-difference
estimations. As the earthquake hit the country in a very specific area, its capital city, we employ
different strategies to address the possible violation of the parallel trend assumption. We provide
strong evidence that in Haiti the immediate negative shock has been associated to persistent welfare
losses over timeOur results also show that the earthquake has an overall negative long-lasting impact
on labour market participation. When we exclude the more specific Metropolitan area, we observe a
drop of 3.9 p.p. in the probability to participate to labour market, encumbering the resilient recovery.
The disruption of household's livelihood system reduce the probability to recover from the shock
without external aid. However, our findings suggest that the assistance program's coverage, even
among the most impacted households has been highly variable. |
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