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Natural disasters displace millions of people a year, but their economic impacts are difficult
to study when the affected population becomes dispersed. This paper estimates the longrun
impacts of six landslides in Uganda on nearly the full affected population. The analysis
exploits the sharp boundaries between households residing in a landslide path and those on
the same slopes but outside the path. Years after the landslides, affected households earn 50%
less income and are 18 percentage points less likely to report being satisfied with their lives.
Further analysis points to social capital as a determinant of successful post-disaster recovery.
