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Extreme weather and poverty risk : evidence from multiple shocks in Mozambique
Baez, Javier E.; Caruso, Germán; Niu, Chiyu - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002592
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Can we rely on VIIRS nightlights to estimate the short-term impacts of natural disasters? : evidence from five Southeast Asian countries
Skoufias, Emmanuel; Strobl, Eric; Tveit, Thomas - 2019
Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) nightlights are used to model damage caused by earthquakes, floods, and typhoons in five Southeast Asian countries (Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam). The data are used to examine the extent to which for each type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167806
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Beyond the S-curve : insurance penetration, institutional quality and financial market development
Giné, Xavier; Ribeiro, Bernardo; Wrede, Peter - 2019
insurance markets. Based on 20 years of insurance premium data from 180 countries, and a similar wealth of data on institutions … and financial market development, the paper presents important correlates of insurance market development. Although the … analysis cannot identify which factors directly cause insurance market growth, the results suggest that interventions aimed at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059017
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Catastrophe risk pricing : an empirical analysis
Lane, Morton (contributor); Mahul, Olivier (contributor) - 2008
point out that, contrary to standard insurance, such as automobile insurance, catastrophe re-insurance is exposed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771220
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Risks, ex-ante actions and public assistance : impacts of natural disasters on child schooling in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Yohannes, Yisehac; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - 2009
"This paper examines the impacts of natural disasters on schooling investments with special focus on the roles of ex-ante actions and ex-post responses using panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi. The importance of ex-ante actions depends on disaster risks and the likelihood of public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003833268
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Natural disasters, self-insurance and human capital investment : evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Yohannes, Yisehac; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - 2009
-term nutritional status) plays a role of insurance with resilience to disasters by protecting schooling investment and outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003833274
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Valuing mortality and morbidity in the context of disaster risks
Cropper, Maureen L.; Sahin, Sebnem - 2009
"Benefit-cost analyses of disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects are an important tool for evaluating the efficiency of such projects, and an important input into decision making. These analyses, however, often fail to monetize the benefits of reduced death and injury. The authors review the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003820991
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Determinants of international emergency aid : humanitarian need only?
Fink, Guenther; Redaelli, Silvia - 2009
"The authors use an original data set covering more than 400 recent natural disasters to analyze the determinants of international emergency aid. Although humanitarian need is a major determinant of emergency relief payments, the results imply that political and strategic factors play a crucial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003821080
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Natural disasters and human capital accumulation
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús - 2009
"The author assesses empirically the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education. Although the results in the empirical literature tend to be inconclusive, using model averaging methods in the framework of cross-country and panel regressions, this paper finds an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003821232
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Natural disasters and the dynamics of intangible assets
López, Ramón - 2009
"Empirical evidence suggests that the higher-order effects of natural disasters, which affect intangible assets, may be even more important than the material inter-industry effects. However, most existing general equilibrium models ignore higher order effects concerning human capital. Moreover,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003821275