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investigate the mitigating impact of an agricultural cashtransfer program (PROCAMPO) and a disaster fund (Fonden) on the migration …
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Understanding and accurately estimating the effects of climate change on migration patterns may be an important concern for future climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts. In this context, issues of spatial dependence are likely relevant but have largely been neglected by previous...
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Do people move as a result of temperature shocks? Documenting weather as a push factor for migration is crucial for informing policy related to climate change and adaptation. This paper studies the impacts of high temperature days on out-migration from counties in the US. We find that...
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We estimate the short-run effects of severe weather shocks on local economic activity and assess cross-border spillovers operating through economic linkages between U.S. states. We measure weather shocks using a detailed county-level database on emergency declarations triggered by natural...
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Panel, we document the size of economic losses via migration from 23 disaster-affected areas in the United States after the … changing spatial inequality in the United States. While disaster-affected areas and those living in them differ in their … disaster, economic losses via migration from disaster-affected areas increase the year of and after the disaster, that these …
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We conduct a review of the existing academic literature to outline possible links between climate change and inequality in the United States. First, researchers have shown that the impact of both physical and transition risks may be uneven across location, income, race, and age. This is driven...
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of natural disaster insurance in adapting to climate change. This chapter reviews current challenges in both public and … private natural disaster insurance markets in the United States and how the nature of these challenges has changed over the … complicate both the supply of and demand for natural disaster insurance, with spillovers to related markets such as real estate …
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on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts … the disaster. The response to hurricanes does not seem to be driven by logrolling behavior or lobbysts' pressure. The …
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different types of disasters, the effect of changing disaster risk so far has largely been neglected. In this paper we study the …
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