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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 …
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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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This study examines whether hurricanes have any impact on performance in standardized examinations. The analysis uses a panel of thirteen Caribbean countries and over 800 schools for the period 1993 through 2010. In particular, the effect on subjects in the humanities and sciences are examined....
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The aim of this paper is to assess the relationship between natural disasters caused by climate change and migration by interesting in the migration rates and the education level in developing countries. Many studies such as the Stern review (2007) or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
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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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Using a synthetic control estimation strategy we examine the economic impact of a large inflow of people from Puerto Rico into Orlando in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017. We find that aggregate employment in Orlando increased as a result of the...
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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 …
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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 …
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Exogenous shocks often impact a local labor market more than at the national level. This study improves upon the standard Difference in Difference (DD) approach by examining exogenous shocks using a Generalized Difference in Difference (GDD) econometric approach that identifies the effects of...
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exposure to risk. In this paper, we test whether overconfident people underestimate the probability of incurring an avalanche … under different levels of avalanche risk, we measured individual cognitive traits and then used a random effect logit model … overestimate their knowledge are also more likely to take the risk associated with a ski trip exposed to avalanche danger. This …
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