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coasts. We document nine stylized facts, including a sizeable rise in the share of coastal housing built on flood-prone land …
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-2017, we estimate the price effects of three flood risk signals: 1) the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, which …
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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 …
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on the foodplain, as defined by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), relative to properties located elsewhere …
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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 …
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We employ georeferenced data and longitudinal household panel survey data to investigate the impact of the dramatic flooding that hit Bangladesh from August-September 2014 on women's employment and empowerment. Development economics models suggest an increase in household members' labour supply...
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We estimate the impact of hurricane strikes on local economic growth rates and how this is reflected in more aggregate growth patterns. To this end we assemble a panel data set of US coastal counties' growth rates and construct a hurricane destruction index that is based on a monetary loss...
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of a natural experiment created by the European Flood of August 2002. Using micro data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel that we combine with geographic flood data, we compare the savings behavior of affected and non-affected individuals …
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This paper reviews the effect of environmental disasters on migration. Although there is an increase of environmental disasters and migration over the past years, the relationship is complex. While some authors find that environmental disasters increase migration, others show that they have only...
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We present a theory of the demand for flood insurance and empirically analyze the effects of the adoption of Risk … the flood zone and its periphery. The reform had highly heterogeneous effects on insurance costs and triggered adjustments … in coverage and deductibles. On average, RR2 increased costs for renewers outside of the flood zone but lowered them for …
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