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purchase offsets from a small number of long-lived producers that restore wetlands over time. We find that offsets led to … between restored and existing wetlands in terms of area and location. A locally differentiated Pigouvian tax on offset …
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hit by a hurricane are more likely to support bills promoting more environmental regulation and control in the year after …
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behaviors. Despite these efforts, surviving children still exhibit negative health impacts. Our data allow us to investigate … differential impacts over time and across countries. We find declining impacts over time, suggesting adaptation. Using national …
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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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Empirical analyses of climatic event impacts on growth, while critical for policy, have been slow to be incorporated …. Second, we estimate cyclone impacts on structural determinants of growth (productivity, depreciation, fatalities) to quantify …. Third, we compute cyclone impacts on the social cost of carbon in the seminal DICE model …
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We examine the economic impact of the large migration of Puerto Ricans to Orlando after Hurricane Maria. Using a … consistent with small negative impacts on earnings in sectors exposed to a labor supply shock, offset by positive effects in …
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This paper examines the impacts of hurricanes on the housing market and the associated implications for local … population turnover. We first characterize the post-hurricane equilibrium dynamics in local housing markets using microdata from … shock to the housing supply as a consequence of the hurricane. Furthermore, we match buyer characteristics from mortgage …
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Since 1980, over 2,000 local governments in US Atlantic and Gulf states have been hit by a hurricane. Such natural … cause local revenues to fall by 6 to 7%. These losses persist at least ten years after a hurricane strike, leading to a 6 … at critical moments after a hurricane strike, when localities are in greatest need of funding sources. Cities deemed …
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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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following the hurricane. However, by the second and third years after the disaster, Katrina evacuees displaced from Orleans …
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