The Effects of Natural Disasters on Optimism

A lot of what you're going to pick up is sort of constant differences across people rather than changes over time that might affect their behavior. My instinct based on what we know about fertility and high mortality environments is that people would try to replace lost children because one of the explanations for why there's such high fertility in the developing worldsort of many decades ago is that child mortality was so high, you want to have a lot of kids to replace the children that do not survive.