. Uncertainty about the future rate of growth of the economy and emissions and the risk of macroeconomic disasters (tail risks) also …

Economics, generally, is a discipline in which relatively little attention is devoted to language and terminology. As … such, economists have not really attempted to define the concept of disasters very carefully, nor have they evaluated the … ethics that are behind the economic analysis of disasters. Given this absence, we believe that a better understanding of the …

International humanitarian aid is pivotal in the response to natural disasters suffered by low-and middle … political leaders and the geographic distribution of ethnic groups within countries with high numbers of natural disasters … building on census (IPUMS) and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data. Our results suggest that the Office of US Foreign …

Using an economic model to assess welfare risk and resilience to disasters, this paper systematically tackles the … questions: 1) How much asset and welfare risks does each region in the Philippines face from riverine flood disasters? 2) How … resilient is each region to riverine flood disasters? and 3) What are the available interventions per region to strengthen …

Forced displacement as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters does not only have contemporaneous …

variability in the weather and the increase in the number of extreme weather disasters associated with climate change. The … objective of this paper is to examine the inter-linkages between weather, disasters, and migration, in India. To examine the … bidirectional flow of migrants across Indian states, we estimate gravity models with Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML), in …

In a model where consumers have quasi-hyperbolic preferences, we compare immediate subsidies paid for health …-conscious consumption and future subsidies rewarding good health outcome. We characterize the subsidy rates which implement the unbiased …