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income, employment, total income, and marriage; and no impact on divorce or fertility. Within just a few years, Katrina … victims' incomes fully recover and even surpass that of controls from similar cities that were unaffected by the storm. The … warning. Our results suggest that, at least in this particular disaster, aid to cover destroyed assets and short-run income …
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income, employment, total income, and marriage; and no impact on divorce or fertility. Within just a few years, Katrina … victims' incomes fully recover and even surpass that of controls from similar cities that were unaffected by the storm. The … warning. Our results suggest that, at least in this particular disaster, aid to cover destroyed assets and short-run income …
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choice of baseline and of the wind-speed elasticity of storm damage. -- climate change ; tropical storms ; economic impact …
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losses magnified in countries with less historical cyclone experience. Income losses arise from a small but persistent …
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losses magnified in countries with less historical cyclone experience. Income losses arise from a small but persistent …
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Tropical cyclones that make landfall on the coast of the USA are causing increasing economic losses. It is assumed that … concerned play in the observed increase in losses. For analysis purposes, storm loss is depicted as a function of the value of … material assets affected by the storm (the capital stock) and storm intensity. The findings show the increase in losses due to …
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We examine the impact of hurricane strikes on the construction industry in US counties. To this end we use a measure of hurricane destruction derived from a wind field model and historical hurricane track data and employ this within a dynamic labour demand framework. Our results show that...
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