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 …

prior to the storm, reflecting homeowners' perception of flood risk. Next, we show that experiencing flooding during Sandy …Many studies have investigated flood risk and insurance coverage in the 100-year flood zone, but much less is known … about the periphery of the flood zone. We present a new approach to estimate flood risk and insurance take-up in the …

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

effect of tropical storm frequency and severity on mortality using objective meteorological data and the universe of vital … statistics records from a large developing country, Mexico. Using a measure of storm exposure that accounts for both windspeed … dispersion and population density along the storm track, I project changes in past storm-related mortality under various …

on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts … the disaster. The response to hurricanes does not seem to be driven by logrolling behavior or lobbysts' pressure. The …

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

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

this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and fertility data for the Atlantic and Gulf Coast … counties of the United States. We find that low-severity storm advisories are associated with a positive and significant … to negative. We also find that most of the changes in fertility resulting from storm advisories come from couples who …