Politics Matter: How Political Experience Mitigates Learning Losses Caused by Natural Disasters
Growing evidence warns about the detrimental effects of the stress induced by natural disasters on learning outcomes. Yet less is known about how political leadership could mitigate the adverse exposure to these events. Exploiting a natural experiment—the massive 2010 earthquake in Chile—as an exoge...
Main Authors: | Manuel Alcaino, Pablo Argote |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Russell Sage Foundation
2024-01-01
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Series: | RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences |
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