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SUBMITTER: Calo-Blanco A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5462365 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20170607 6
Do adversarial environmental conditions create social cohesion? We provide new answers to this question by exploiting spatial and temporal variation in exposure to earthquakes across Chile. Using a variety of methods and controlling for a number of socio-economic variables, we find that exposure to earthquakes has a positive effect on several indicators of social cohesion. Social cohesion increases after a big earthquake and slowly erodes in periods where environmental conditions are less advers ...[more]