in urban poverty. -- living wage ; wages ; employment ; poverty …

coasts. We document nine stylized facts, including a sizeable rise in the share of coastal housing built on flood-prone land …

-2017, we estimate the price effects of three flood risk signals: 1) the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, which …

This paper argues that increases in perceived flood risk entail a negative and persistent shock to local economic … suffered damage, along with higher exit rates. The persistence of the effects is consistent with an upward revision of flood …-risk beliefs triggered by the hurricane. These findings suggest that businesses are adapting to the higher flood-risk environment …

on the foodplain, as defined by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), relative to properties located elsewhere …

natural disasters intensified by anthropogenic climate change. To this end, we link official geo-coded satellite data on flood …-affected buildings to neighborhood-level information on socio-economic status. We then document the empirical relationship between flood … percent lower in flood-affected neighborhoods than in non-affected neighborhoods nearby. Our study is the first to document …

the top. Wealth remains remarkably absent from the analysis of poverty and the redistributive effectiveness of welfare … of financial need among the elderly - a segment of society that is at a relatively high risk of income poverty - also … of these findings for anti-poverty and redistributive policies. …