Natural Disasters and Government Turnover

dc.contributor.author	Ahlerup, Pelle
dc.date.accessioned	2013-02-20T16:31:32Z
dc.date.available	2013-02-20T16:31:32Z
dc.date.issued	2013-02
dc.identifier.issn	1403-2465
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2077/32312
dc.description	JEL Classification: Q54; P48; D72	sv
dc.description.abstract	Natural disasters have been linked to both violent conflict and, in some settings, poor economic growth, but do they also drive government parties out of office? We study government turnover in a global sample of more than 200 elections to the executive. Natural disasters are associated with more frequent turnover, but not in highly democratic countries. The effect of geophysical disasters is especially strong, and even stronger when endogeneity is addressed.	sv
dc.format.extent	16 pages	sv
dc.language.iso	eng	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working Papers in Economics	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	554	sv
dc.subject	natural disasters	sv
dc.subject	elections	sv
dc.title	Natural Disasters and Government Turnover	sv
dc.type	Text	sv
dc.type.svep	report	sv
dc.contributor.organization	Dept of Economics, University of Gothenburg	sv