on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts … the disaster. The response to hurricanes does not seem to be driven by logrolling behavior or lobbysts' pressure. The …

This paper explores options for programs to be put in place prior to a disaster to avoid large and often poorly … disaster often creates major problems following a catastrophic event for victims and the government. Property owners who suffer … government is then likely to respond with costly but poorly targeted disaster assistance. To avoid these large and often uneven …

eight years past the storm by 1.74 percentage points. Migration to lower-mortality regions explains most of this survival …

pre-disaster trend, and do not recover within twenty years. Both rich and poor countries exhibit this response, with … suppression of annual growth rates spread across the fifteen years following disaster, generating large and significant cumulative … continuous exposure to disaster. Linking these results to projections of future cyclone activity, we estimate that under …