The Economic Growth Impact of Hurricanes: Evidence from U.S. Coastal Counties
I estimate the impact of hurricane strikes on local economic growth rates. To this end, I assemble a panel data set of U.S. coastal counties' growth rates and construct a novel hurricane destruction index that is based on a monetary loss equation, local wind speed estimates derived from a physical wind field model, and local exposure characteristics. The econometric results suggest that a county's annual economic growth rate falls on average by 0.45 percentage points, 28%% of it due to richer individuals moving away from affected counties. I also find that the impact of hurricanes is netted out in annual terms at the state level and does not affect national economic growth rates at all. © 2011 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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2011
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Authors: | Strobl, Eric |
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The Review of Economics and Statistics. - MIT Press. - Vol. 93.2011, 2, p. 575-589
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MIT Press |
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