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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 …
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on flood risk capitalization into housing prices. Second, we implement a field survey in Rhode Island. We find … significant heterogeneity and sorting based on flood risk perceptions and amenity values. Third, we calibrate the model and …
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In 2010, the Gulf Coast experienced the largest oil spill, the greatest mobilization of spill response resources, and the first Gulf-wide deepwater drilling moratorium in U.S. history. Taking advantage of the unexpected nature of the spill and drilling moratorium, I estimate the net effects of...
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Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces. We decomposed the location dummies in provincial growth regressions to obtain estimates of the effects of geography and policy on provincial growth rates in 1996-99. Their...
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-migration. This paper examines the impact of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 on agricultural development. Flooded counties …
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We examine risk preferences using the flood insurance decisions of over 100,000 households. In each contract …
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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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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...
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