The Gendered Nature of Natural Disasters: The Impact of Catastrophic Events on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy, 1981–2002

By Eric Neumayer, Thomas Plümper. 2007

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Subfields: Emergency Medical Services, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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In Emergency Medical Services

1. Ilan Noy
2. Thomas Pluemper
3. Philip E. Keefer
4. T. Madhuri
5. A. Quisumbing
6. Eric Neumayer

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Eric Neumayer
2. Thomas Plümper
3. Fabian Barthel
4. A. Quisumbing
5. Ilan Noy
6. Thomas Pluemper
7. Philip E. Keefer
8. T. Madhuri

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Eric Neumayer
2. Thomas Pluemper
3. A. Quisumbing
4. Ilan Noy
5. Fabian Barthel
6. Philip E. Keefer
7. T. Madhuri
8. Thomas Plümper

Citations in the corpus

• The macroeconomic consequences of disasters (2009, background): “18 Neumayer and Plümper (2007) have found that often, most of the victims of natural calamities are women, and possibly children and the elderly.”
• Gender Dimensions of Disaster Risk and Resilience (2021, background): “Neumayer and Plümper (2007) find that the gender gap in terms of impact grows with the severity of the disaster, to women’s disadvantage.”
• Livelihood vulnerability index analysis : an approach to study vulnerability in the context of Bihar : original research (2014, background): “However, it is recognised that households’ capacity and their access to resources differ considerably (Berke et al. 2007; Neumayer & Plumper 2007).”
• Do Natural Disasters Affect Human Capital? An Assessment Based on Existing Empirical Evidence (2010, background): “Neumayer and Pluemper (2007) use cross-country evidence to examine the effect of a diverse range of natural disasters in the period 1981-2002 on the change in the gender gap in life expectancy in a sample of 141 countries.”
• Earthquake propensity and the politics of mortality prevention (2010, positive): “EARTHQUAKE MORTALITY: THE NEED FOR GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION Government policies have a substantial influence on disaster mortality through their influence on private risk reduction measures and through post-disaster aid (Neumayer and Plümper 2007; Plümper and Neumayer 2009).”
• Gendered impacts of the 2007–2008 food price crisis: Evidence using panel data from rural Ethiopia (2013, background): “A recent empirical analysis of the effects of natural disasters in 141 countries from 1981–2002 found that natural disasters lowered the life expectancy of women more than that of men (Neumayer and Plümper 2007).”
• Understanding livelihood vulnerability to climate change: Applying the livelihood vulnerability index in Trinidad and Tobago (2013, background): “However, all women are not equally vulnerable because of capital asset differentials (Neumayer and Plumper, 2007).”
• Gender and Sustainability (2014, background): “A recent empirical analysis of 141 countries from 1981 to 2002 found that natural disasters lower the life expectancy of women more than that of men (64).”
• The political economy of natural disaster damage (2014, background): “While there is a growing literature analyzing the determinants of disaster mortality (e.g., Kahn 2005; Anbarci et al. 2005; Escaleras et al. 2007; Neumayer and Plümper 2007; Plümper and Neumayer 2009, Keefer et al. 2011) as well as a nascent literature on the determinants of disaster damage (e.g.…”