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Out of sight, out of mind? : the impact of natural disasters on pregnancy outcomes

Simeonova, Emilia - 2009

The impact of global climate change on health is not well understood. Besides the direct channel of increasing temperatures, there is a potentially more harmful one: through an increase in extreme weather incidents. We offer the first evidence on the effect of natural disasters on pregnancy...

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Natural disasters, government spending, and the fiscal multiplier

Fidrmuc, Jan; Ghosh, Sugata; Yang, Weonho - 2015

We estimate the fiscal multiplier associated with shocks to government spending. We consider increases in government spending in the U.S. states in the wake of natural disasters to capture spending shocks that are both unexpected and unrelated to the preceding state of the economy. We find that...

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Fifty years of U.S. natural disaster insurance policy

Marcoux, Kendra; Wagner, Katherine R. H. - 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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Measuring the impact of insurance on urban recovery with light : the 2010-2011 New Zealand earthquakes

Cuong Nhu Nguyen; Noy, Ilan - 2018

We measure the longer-term effect of a major earthquake on the local economy, using night-time light intensity measured from space, and investigate whether insurance claim payments for damaged residential property affected the local recovery process. We focus on the destructive Canterbury...

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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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Large-scale disasters and the insurance industry

Krämer, Walter (contributor); … - 2008

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Sacrifice, discounting and climate policy : five questions

Karp, Larry S. - 2009

I offer a selective review of discounting and climate policy. Analytic and numerical models show that different assumptions greatly change the degree to which decisions about climate policy depend on the discount rate. I discuss a claim that standard models exaggerate the current generation's...

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Global warming and extreme events : rethinking the timing and intensity of environmental policy

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2010

The possibility of low-probability extreme events has reignited the debate over the optimal intensity and timing of climate policy. In this paper we therefore contribute to the literature by assessing the implications of low-probability extreme events on environmental policy in a continuous-time...

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Climatic factors as determinants of international migration

Beine, Michel; Parsons, Christopher A. - 2012 - This version: February 2012

We examine environmental factors as potential determinants of international migration. We distinguish between unexpected short-run factors, captured by natural disasters, as well as long-run climate change and climate variability. Building on a simple neo-classical model we use a panel dataset...

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Natural disasters and the effect of trade on income : a new panel IV approach

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Gröschl, Jasmin - 2011

Does trade openness cause higher GDP per capita? Since the seminal instrumental variables (IV) estimates of Frankel and Romer [F&R](1999) important doubts have surfaced. Is the correlation spurious and driven by omitted geographical and institutional variables? In this paper, we generalize F&R's...

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