Mortality, the family and the Indian Ocean Tsunami

Economic Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 554, 2011, Pages

  Frankenberg, Elizabeth ^a   Gillespie, Thomas ^b   Preston, Samuel ^c   Sikoki, Bondan ^d   Thomas, Duncan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d SurveyMETER   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI 2004; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SURVIVAL; TSUNAMI;

ACEH; INDONESIA; NORTH SUMATRA;

EID: 79960600361     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02446.x     Document Type: Article

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