We present a theory of the demand for flood insurance and empirically analyze the effects of the adoption of Risk …

This paper examines the impact of severe wildfire events on Bolivia's poverty and labor market outcomes. We use a panel … Interactive Fixed Effects Counterfactual Estimator, we estimate the causal effects of severe wildfire events on poverty, household … per-capita income, and the agricultural sector. We find a significant short-term increase in poverty explained by a …

donations following the Bushfires, compared to non-disaster periods, is substantially greater for females than males; the … proportional increase in the number of females donating for the first time after the disaster is approximately twice the …

reducing the poverty rate by almost one percentage point more, a 75 percent increase over the survey estimate. …

constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of constitutional language of the economic and social rights matter … important results. First, we do not find an association between constitutional rights generally framed and poverty. Second, we … do not find an association between economic and social rights framed as directive principles and poverty. Third, we do …

points in the poverty headcount as well as a decline of 0.32 points in the Gini coefficient. …

from Bangladesh and Mexico, and use the model estimates to compute poverty rates for men, women, and children. Contrary to … existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take …