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Politics Matter: How Political Experience Mitigates Learning Losses Caused by Natural Disasters

Manuel Alcaino, Pablo Argote
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2024, 10 (1) 181-204; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.1.08
Manuel Alcaino
aRegional advisor at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics
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bPostdoctoral scholar in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California, United States
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