Bin, Okmyung; Bishop, John A.; Kousky, Carolyn - 2011
This study examines the redistributional effects of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) using a national … database of premium, coverage, and claim payments at the county level between 1980 and 2006. Measuring progressivity as the … departure from per capita county income proportionality we find that NFIP premiums are weakly regressive on an annual basis but …