immigrants towards U.S. Southern ports of entry after Hurricane Mitch, also generates positive wage effects but only for more …

lead to stronger hurricanes, but the evidence on hurricane frequency is unclear. We estimate that the average annual U ….S. hurricane damages will increase by $8 billion at 2005 incomes (0.06 percent of GDP) due to global warming. However, this number …

hurricanes to nearby unaffected counties. We find that the average hurricane reduces elective services by about 7% in the month … hurricane severity suggest that it will take over 3 years for providers to make up the lost revenue from COVID-19 …

We follow Medicare cohorts to estimate Hurricane Katrina's long-run mortality effects on victims initially living in … New Orleans. Including the initial shock, the hurricane improved eight-year survival by 2.07 percentage points. Migration …

hit by a hurricane are more likely to support bills promoting more environmental regulation and control in the year after …

Hurricane Katrina destroyed more than 200,000 homes and led to massive economic and physical dislocation. Using a panel … of tax return data, we provide one of the first comprehensive analyses of the hurricane's long-term economic impact on … strong economic performance of Katrina victims is particularly remarkable given that the hurricane struck with essentially no …

hurricane. The present value of this increase significantly exceeds that of direct disaster aid. This implies, among other …

size of prior migrant stocks. Large migrant networks reduce fixed costs by facilitating legal immigration from hurricane …-affected source countries. Hurricane-induced immigration can be fully accounted for by new legal permanent residents (“green card …