regional-level mitigation or adaptation, which reduces disaster risks to capital in the interim. Mitigation depends on belief … regarding the adverse consequences of global warming. Pessimism jumps with a disaster and slowly reverts in the absence of … major tropical cyclones, using GDP growth damages, government flood-control budgets, and climate-model projections of …

quality of aid delivered and social agendas pursued across neighboring villages in a set disaster context. We model the …

specifically target extreme weather events. This paper shows that US hurricanes lead to substantial increases in non-disaster … hurricane. The present value of this increase significantly exceeds that of direct disaster aid. This implies, among other …

We examine risk preferences using the flood insurance decisions of over 100,000 households. In each contract …

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 … level from 2009 to 2016 to compare the real median incomes of homeowners in areas subject to flooding risks to those …

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 … highest risk of flooding relative to nearby areas. Our findings imply reduced rates for high risk areas cannot be justified …