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At the very edge of a storm : the impact of a distant cyclone on Atoll Islands

Taupo, Tauisi; Noy, Ilan - 2016

The intensity of cyclones in the Pacific is predicted to increase and sea levels are predicted to rise, so an atoll nation like Tuvalu can serve as the "canary in the mine" pointing to the new risks that are emerging because of climatic change. Based on a household survey we conducted in Tuvalu,...

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The economic and fiscal burdens of disasters in the Pacific

Noy, Ilan; Edmonds, Christopher M. - 2016

The Pacific Islands face the highest disaster risk, in per capita terms, globally. Examples of catastrophic events in the region include the 2009 tsunami in Samoa, the 2014 floods in the Solomon Islands, and the 2015 cyclone Pam in Vanuatu. Even without these catastrophic events, countries in...

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The determinants of subnational public spending allocation for disaster risk reduction in Bangladesh

Karim, Azreen; Noy, Ilan - 2020

We examine the directly observable determinants of sub-national (central to local) public spending allocations for 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 subdistricts (Upazilas)...

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Efficient adaptation to flood risk

Hovekamp, Winston P.; Wagner, Katherine R. H. - 2023

This paper studies whether private adaptation to flood risk is economically efficient. We estimate the return to elevating houses, one of the most significant private defensive investments against flooding, using two decades of microdata on the universe of houses and flood damages in high-risk...

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Integrating with their feet : cross-border lending at the German-Austrian border

Fidrmuc, Jarko (contributor); Hainz, Christa (contributor) - 2008

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Legislature integration and bipartisanship : a natural experiment in Iceland

Lowe, Matt; Jo, Donghee - 2021

estimate the effects of seating integration on bipartisanship. When two politicians from different parties are randomly …

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First time around : local conditions and multi-dimensional integration of refugees

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu; Schikora, Felicitas - 2020

refugees' multi-dimensional integration outcomes (economic, linguistic, navigational, political, psychological, and social … social integration: they are less likely to be in education or employment and they earn less. We also show that favorable … attitudes towards immigrants promote refugees' economic and social integration. The results suggest that attitudes toward …

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Pricing group membership

Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Cabrales, Antonio - 2020

what conditions is top-down sorting socially efficient. We illustrate when integration (i.e. mixing types so that each …

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Ethnicity and tax filing behavior

Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Miao, Chizheng - 2019

We analyze differences in tax filing behavior between natives and immigrants using population-wide Swedish administrative data, focusing on two empirical examples. First, controlling for a rich set of variables, we compare deduction behavior of immigrants and natives with the same commuting...

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Caught between cultures : unintended consequences of improving opportunity for immigrant girls

Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; Frijters, Paul; … - 2020

What happens when immigrant girls are given increased opportunities to integrate into the workplace and society, but their parents value more traditional cultural outcomes? Building on Akerlof and Kranton's identity framework (2000), we construct a simple theoretical model which shows how...

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