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When the Levee Breaks : Black Migration and Economic Development in the American South
Hornbeck, Richard - 2012
-migration. This paper examines the impact of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 on agricultural development. Flooded counties …
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Risk Preferences in Small and Large Stakes : Evidence from Insurance Contract Decisions
Collier, Benjamin - 2017
We examine risk preferences using the flood insurance decisions of over 100,000 households. In each contract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951852
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Amenities, Risk, and Flood Insurance Reform
Smith, V. Kerry - 2019
This paper provides the first, comprehensive evidence on the question of whether the subsidized flood insurance rates … are needed to meet the affordability goal of the National Flood Insurance Program. We use IRS records at the zip code … the United States containing FEMA designated Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHA). There are clear patterns of positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891785
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The Affordability Goal and Prices in the National Flood Insurance Program
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2017
The United States Gulf Region features areas that face significant flood risk. Climate change may further elevate this … challenges, the Federal government has enacted a complex set of policies through its National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940810
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What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Income, Race, and Fairness
Fong, Christina M. - 2010
We investigate determinants of private and public generosity to Katrina victims using an artifactual field experiment. In this experiment, respondents from the general population viewed a short audiovisual presentation that manipulated respondents' perceptions of the income, race, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759998
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The Katrina Effect : Was There a Bright Side to the Evacuation of Greater New Orleans?
Vigdor, Jacob L. - 2010
In the presence of moving costs, individuals may remain in a region even when they expect to attain a higher standard of living elsewhere. When a natural disaster or other exogenous shock forces individuals to move, the net impact on living standards could be positive or negative. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760194
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Hurricane Katrina Floods New Jersey : The Role of Information in the Market Response to Flood Risk
Muller, Nicholas Z. - 2019
treatments respond to flood risk. We identify reactions to flood risk, distinctly from price effects due to flood damage, by … seaboard. We find that homes in high flood risk zones situated in towns that participate in public flood awareness activities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867643
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The Effects of Mortality on Fertility : Population Dynamics after a Natural Disaster
Nobles, Jenna - 2014
Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. We investigate the fertility response to an unanticipated mortality shock that resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed large shares of the residents of some Indonesian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047782
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The Geography of Development : Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding
Desmet, Klaus - 2015
We study the relationship between geography and growth. To do so, we first develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with different levels of migration frictions. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024510
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Adult Mortality Five Years after a Natural Disaster : Evidence from the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Ho, Jessica - 2016
Exposure to extreme events has been hypothesized to affect subsequent mortality because of mortality selection and scarring effects of the event itself. We examine survival at and in the five years after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami for a population-representative sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989143