Build back better? Long-lasting impact of the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti

Camille Saint-Macary and Claire Zanuso
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Camille Saint-Macary: LEDA-DIAL - Développement, Institutions et Modialisation - LEDa - Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Natural Disasters; Impact Evaluation; Asset-Wealth; Labour Supply; Haiti; Désastres Naturels; Evaluation d’impact; Richesse; Offre de travail (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-10-27
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