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Social Inequalities in Climate Change-Attributed Impacts of Hurrican Harvey
Smiley, Kevin T.; Noy, Ilan; Wehner, Michael; Frame, Dave; … - 2021
Climate change is already increasing the severity of extreme weather events such as with rainfall during hurricanes. But no research to date investigates if, and to what extent, there are social inequalities in current climate change-attributed flood impacts. Here, we use climate change...
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The Global Costs of Extreme Weather that are Attributable to Climate Change
Newman, Rebecca; Noy, Ilan - 2022
Extreme weather events have significant adverse costs for individuals, firms, communities, regional, and national economies. Extreme Event Attribution (EEA), a methodology that examines the degree to which anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions had changed the occurrence of specific extreme...
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Measuring Religion from Behavior : Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan
Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua Evan; Callen, Michael - 2022
Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...
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The Determinants of Subnational Public Spending Allocation for Disaster Risk Reduction in Bangladesh
Karim, Azreen - 2020
disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation in Bangladesh, a country with a very high exposure to weather risk. We use a … comprehensive dataset for the 483 sub-districts (Upazilas) in Bangladesh, tracking disaster risk reduction and adaptation funding … does proximity to the centres of Dhaka and Chittagong. Public spending for adaptive disaster risk reduction, as …
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Natural Disasters and Regional Development - the Case of Earthquakes
Fabian, Marius - 2019
We analyze the impact of earthquakes on nighttime lights at a sub-national level, i.e. on grids of different size. We argue that existing studies on the impact of natural disasters on economic development have several important limitations, both at the level of the outcome variable – usually...
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Natural Disasters, Moral Hazard, and Special Interests in Congress
Kaplan, Carol - 2019
accountability and politicians’ support for special interests. We show that, in the immediate aftermath of a disaster, the evening …
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Financial Market Responses to a Natural Disaster : Evidence from Local Credit Networks and the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Czura, Kristina - 2019
disaster to different extents, we estimate the causal effect of this devastating economic shock on financial flows between …
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Reversible Environmental Catastrophes with Disconnected Generations
Heijdra, Ben J. - 2019
We study environmental policy in an economy-ecology model featuring multiple deterministic stable steady-state ecological equilibria. The economy-ecology does not settle in either of the deterministic steady states as the environmental system is hit by random shocks. Individual live for two...
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Fifty Years of Peril : A Comprehensive Comparison of the Impact of Terrorism and Disasters Linked to Natural Hazards (1970-2019)
Wilson, Timothy; Noy, Ilan - 2022
We compare the realised impact of terrorism and disasters linked to natural hazards. Using fifty years of data from two databases covering 99 percent of the global population, we find that natural hazard disasters were more then 20 times more impactful than terrorism. The former had a larger...
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Fifty Years of U.S. Natural Disaster Insurance Policy
Marcoux, Kendra; H. Wagner, Katherine R. - 2023
of natural disaster insurance in adapting to climate change. This chapter reviews current challenges in both public and … private natural disaster insurance markets in the United States and how the nature of these challenges has changed over the … complicate both the supply of and demand for natural disaster insurance, with spillovers to related markets such as real estate …
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