Effect of major disasters on geographic mobility intentions: the case of the Fukushima nuclear accident

Eiji Yamamura (), Chisako Yamane, Shoko Yamane and Yoshiro Tsutsui ()

Chapter 14 in Handbook on the Economics of Disasters, 2022, pp 275-291 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter uses panel data from Japan to explore how the Great East Japan Earthquake influenced the intention to leave one's place of residence by comparing the same individuals' responses before and after the earthquake. Controlling for unobserved individual fixed effects and various individual characteristics, we found that (1) people were more willing to leave their place of residence after the disaster when they lived closer to Fukushima, (2) the effect of the disaster on respondents' intention to leave was reinforced when they had a young child, and (3) after dividing the sample by gender, these tendencies were observed among women but not among men. Based on the last finding, we conclude that differences between men and women in perceived risk lead to differences in mobility intentions.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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