household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with …

) econometric approach that identifies the effects of shocks resulting from hurricanes. Based on the Quarterly Census of Employment … counties; however, this is coupled with a slower growth rate in employment. Powerful hurricanes have greater effects than their …. Although focus is on hurricanes in Florida, this GDD technique is applicable to a wider range of exogenous shocks …

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 …

the disaster. The response to hurricanes does not seem to be driven by logrolling behavior or lobbysts' pressure. The …

This study utilizes a panel fixed effects model to explore the economic impact of hurricanes on local crop production … in Jamaica using quarterly 1999-2008 micro level data. We find, in general, that hurricanes will have a negative impact …