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We document that the quasi-mandatory U.S. flood insurance program reduces mortgage lending along both the extensive and intensive margins. We measure flood insurance mandates using FEMA flood maps, focusing on the discreet updates to these maps that can be made exogenous to true underlying flood...
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This thesis studies the impacts of flooding on income and expenditures of rural households in northeast Thailand. It … village level to identify the causal impacts of flooding on households. Two objective measures for flood intensities are … absolute levels of flooding, deviations from median flood exposure are driving negative effects on households. This indicates a …
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There is substantial evidence on the effectiveness of short-time work on reducing unemployment. However, no study looks at its role during natural disasters. This article exploits the exogenous nature of the 2013 European floods to assess if the impact depends on the quality of the short-time...
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