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Hurricane Katrina Floods New Jersey : The Role of Information in the Market Response to Flood Risk
Muller, Nicholas Z. - 2019
This study uses hedonic property models to explore how coastal real estate markets subject to heterogeneous information treatments respond to flood risk. We identify reactions to flood risk, distinctly from price effects due to flood damage, by examining non-local flooding events. Utilizing a...
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Dust and Death : Evidence from the West African Harmattan
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2019
Using two decades of data from twelve low-income countries in West Africa, we show that dust carried by harmattan trade winds increases infant and child mortality. Health investments respond to dust exposure, consistent with compensating behaviors. Despite these efforts, surviving children still...
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Dust and Death : Evidence from the West African Harmattan
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2019
Using two decades of data from twelve low-income countries in West Africa, we show that dust carried by harmattan trade winds increases infant and child mortality. Health investments respond to dust exposure, consistent with compensating behaviors. Despite these efforts, surviving children still...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868361
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The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long-Run Economic Growth : Evidence from 6,700 Cyclones
Hsiang, Solomon - 2014
Does the environment have a causal effect on economic development? Using meteorological data, we reconstruct every country's exposure to the universe of tropical cyclones during 1950-2008. We exploit random within-country year-to-year variation in cyclone strikes to identify the causal effect of...
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Current Account Deficits During Heightened Risk : Menacing or Mitigating?
Forbes, Kristin J. - 2016
Large current account deficits, and the corresponding reliance on capital flows from abroad, can increase a country's vulnerability to periods of heightened risk and uncertainty. This paper develops a framework to evaluate such vulnerabilities. It highlights the central importance of two...
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Weathering the Storm : Hurricanes and Birth Outcomes
Currie, Janet - 2012
A growing literature suggests that stressful events in pregnancy can have negative effects on birth outcomes. Some of the estimates in this literature may be affected by small samples, omitted variables, endogenous mobility in response to disasters, and errors in the measurement of gestation, as...
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Katrina's Children : Evidence on the Structure of Peer Effects from Hurricane Evacuees
Imberman, Scott A. - 2009
In 2005, hurricanes Katrina and Rita forced many children to relocate across the Southeast. While schools quickly enrolled evacuees, receiving families worried about the impact of evacuees on non-evacuee students. Data from Houston and Louisiana show that, on average, the influx of evacuees...
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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives : Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2010
In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...
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The Economics of Hurricanes in the United States
Nordhaus, William D. - 2010
The year 2005 brought record numbers of hurricanes and storm damages to the United States. Was this a foretaste of … may be underestimated by current storm models. Fourth, 2005 appears to have been a quadruple outlier, involving a record … landfall in the United States, and an intense storm hitting the most vulnerable high-value region in the country …
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Hurricanes, Climate Change Policies and Electoral Accountability
Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2019
This paper studies how politicians and voters respond to new information on the threats of climate change. Using data on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts hit by a hurricane are more likely to support bills...
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