earthquake protection in Quebec and British Columbia is influenced by the default option and the structure of the insurance plan …. Homeowners in both provinces were given the opportunity to purchase protection against earthquake losses when presented with one … public-private risk pool. The default frame was changed so the homeowner could either opt-in by purchasing this coverage or …

scarring effects of the event itself. We examine survival at and in the five years after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and … tsunami for a population-representative sample of residents of Aceh, Indonesia who were differentially exposed to the disaster …. For this population, the dynamics of selection and scarring are a complex function of the degree of tsunami impact in the …

treatments respond to flood risk. We identify reactions to flood risk, distinctly from price effects due to flood damage, by … seaboard. We find that homes in high flood risk zones situated in towns that participate in public flood awareness activities …

Urban flooding poses danger to people and places. People can adapt to this risk by moving to safer areas or by … investing in private self-protection. Places can offset some of the risk through urban planning and infrastructure investment …. By constructing a global city data set that covers the years 2012 to 2018, we test several flood risk adaptation …

Municipal bond markets begin pricing sea level rise (SLR) exposure risk in 2013, coinciding with upward revisions to …-maturity bonds and is not solely driven by near-term flood risk. We use a structural model of credit risk to quantify the implied …

This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake on the spatial distribution of economic … activity in the American West. Using variation in the potential damage intensity of the earthquake, we show that more severely … attractive migration destinations in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, which permanently changed the spatial …

The Messina-Reggio Calabria Earthquake (1908) was the deadliest earthquake and arguably the most devastating natural … evidence that the earthquake had, on average, a large impact on emigration or its composition. There were, however …

effects of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a shock that immediately reduced United States. GNP by 1.5-1.8 percentage points … the Federal Reserve. In this study, we identify the San Francisco earthquake as the shock that triggered the chain of …

influx into Florida public schools following the Haitian earthquake of 2010 using unique matched birth and schooling records … earthquake or in the two years that follow, regardless of the socioeconomic status, grade level, ethnicity, or birthplace of …