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policies to reduce household vulnerability, including the role of discounting. In particular, we highlight the limited coping …We provide an initial framework regarding priorities for government programs to reduce the natural-disaster … conceptual framework for understanding resilience at the household level and evidence from the PCED Social Protection Survey …
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long-run disaster impacts in the World Bank's macroeconomic and fiscal model and illustrates the importance of fiscal …
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reductions in household income and farm revenue. The findings highlight the need for better disaster risk reduction and planing … severity of these impacts in future. This paper uses two household surveys (2011/12 and 2013/14) combined with other data to … conflict and price shocks. We evaluate the impacts of shocks on several measures of food security, dietary diversity, household …
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disaster prone countries with weak social safety nets. …
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Climate-related natural disaster shocks are expected to rise as the earth is getting warmer, which will adversely … of development gains and exacerbate inequality. To cope with increasing disaster risks, both short-term adaptation … strategies like relocation, government transfers, and other social safety nets, as well as long-term strategies like disaster …
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There are concerns that climate-related physical and political risks are not yet properly reflected in asset prices. To address these concerns, we develop a dynamic asset pricing framework with rare disasters related to climate change. The novelty of this paper lies in linking carbon emissions...
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This paper presents a Markov switching dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model designed to evaluate the macroeconomic return of adaptation investment to natural disasters (NDs) and the impact of climate change. While the model follows the existing literature in assuming that NDs destroy a...
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We examine how the occurrence of natural disasters impact the US economy and financial markets using monthly data since 2000. Our analysis reveals large sustained adverse effects of disasters on overall economic activity, with significant implications across various sectors including labor,...
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focus is on two extremely severe winters that caused mass livestock mortality. We use household panel data with … comprehensive retrospective information on households’ historic experience with weather shocks. Exposure to the weather shock … significantly reduces the likelihood of being enrolled in mandatory school two to three years after the shock. Similarly, it …
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