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Cities and the sea level
Lin, Yatang; McDermott, Thomas K. J.; Michaels, Guy - 2021
Construction on low elevation coastal zones is risky for both residents and taxpayers who bail them out, especially when sea levels are rising. We study this construction using spatially disaggregated data on the US Atlantic and Gulf coasts. We document nine stylized facts, including a sizeable...
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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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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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Government repression and the death toll from natural disasters
Costa, Samia - 2012
, however, could also play a role in disaster preparedness. In particular, I examine whether governments that are deemed to be … investment in disaster preparedness. I find an inverse U-shaped relationship between repression and casualties, with countries at … either end of the distribution experiencing lower fatalities. -- natural disasters ; government repression ; disaster …
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The tempest : natural disasters, early shocks and children's short- and long-run development
Deuchert, Eva; Felfe, Christina - 2013 - This draft: February, 2013
indicates that the main underlying channel is a shock on families' wealth. -- child development ; natural disaster ; wealth …
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Decentralization and natural disasters
Goodspeed, Timothy J. - 2013
disaster. The paper concludes by reflecting on what we know about whether policies to confront natural disasters should be …
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Naturally negative : the growth effects of natural disasters
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin - 2013
literature does not offer conclusive evidence. Most existing studies use disaster data drawn from damage records of insurance … GDP. We build a comprehensive database of disaster events and their intensities from primary geophysical and … effect of disasters on growth. The worst 5% disaster years come with a growth damage of at least 0.45 percentage points. That …
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Do natural hazards cause international migration?
Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; Steinwachs, Thomas - 2016
with the World Bank’s Global Bilateral Migration Database. Overall, our results suggest little evidence that natural …
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