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Exposures and Behavioral Responses to Wildfire Smoke
Burke, Marshall; Heft-Neal, Sam; Li, Jessica; Driscoll, Anne - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The impacts of environmental change on human outcomes often depend on local exposures and behavioral responses that are challenging to observe with traditional administrative or sensor data. We show how data from private pollution sensors, cell phones, social media posts, and internet search...
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Air Pollution and the Labor Market : Evidence from Wildfire Smoke
Borgschulte, Mark; Molitor, David; Zou, Eric Yongchen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study how air pollution impacts the U.S. labor market by analyzing effects of drifting wildfire smoke that can affect populations far from the fires themselves. We link satellite smoke plumes with labor market outcomes to estimate that an additional day of smoke exposure reduces quarterly...
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Mandated vs. Voluntary Adaptation to Natural Disasters : The Case of U.S. Wildfires
Baylis, Patrick W.; Boomhower, Judson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Despite escalating disaster losses and predicted increases in weather-related catastrophes, takeup of protective technologies and behaviors appears limited by myopia, externalities, and other factors. One response to such frictions is to mandate adaptive investment. We measure the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794648
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The Unintended Impacts of Agricultural Fires : Human Capital in China
Zivin, Joshua S. Graff - 2019
The practice of burning agricultural waste is ubiquitous around the world, yet the external human capital costs from those fires have been underexplored. Using data from the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) and agricultural fires detected by high-resolution satellites in China during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480149
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Moral Hazard, Wildfires, and the Economic Incidence of Natural Disasters
Baylis, Patrick - 2019
fire risk and decreases surprisingly steeply with development density. A simple model is used to explore effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480494
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The Changing Risk and Burden of Wildfire in the US
Burke, Marshall - 2020
, their consequences, and how risk from fire might be mitigated. Here we bring together data on the changing risk and societal … US, a number increasing by 1 million houses every 3 years. Using a statistical model that links satellite-based fire and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481618
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Where There's Smoking, There's Fire : The Effects of Smoking Policies on the Incidence of Fires in the United States
Markowitz, Sara - 2010
Fires and burns are among the leading causes of unintentional death in the U.S. Most of these deaths occur in residences, and cigarettes are a primary cause. In this paper, I explore the relationship between smoking, cigarette policies, and fires. As fewer people smoke, there are less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462033
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Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality : Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires
Jayachandran, Seema - 2008
Smoke from massive wildfires blanketed Indonesia in late 1997. This paper examines the impact this air pollution (particulate matter) had on fetal, infant, and child mortality. Exploiting the sharp timing and spatial patterns of the pollution and inferring deaths from "missing children" in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464635
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W.U.I. on Fire : Risk, Salience & Housing Demand
McCoy, Shawn J. - 2014
between locations that vary in their perceived level of fire risk. The model allows us to infer the evolution of risk … analysis is based on a multi-dimensional characterization of the potential linkages between fire events and risk perceptions … dynamics across properties that differ in both their spatial relationship to wild fire events (views vs. proximity) and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458021
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Creative Destruction : Barriers to Urban Growth and the Great Boston Fire of 1872
Hornbeck, Richard - 2014
paper analyzes new plot-level data in the aftermath of the Great Boston Fire of 1872, estimating substantial economic gains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458201