responds to one of the costliest natural disasters in India. We find that consumption dropped by 11% during the disaster, 65 …% of which was recovered after the disaster. On average, consumption per capita dropped by $312 per year, which costs about …

households that exhibit confidence in disaster assistance payments are 25 to 42 percent less likely to hold flood insurance. We …Concern over resilience to natural disasters often focuses on moral hazard; expectations of disaster assistance may … natural disasters. We examine flood insurance market penetration using household level survey data. We address endogeneity of …

in the world. Using a difference-in-differences design, we show that Kosi floods reduced men's age at marriage by almost …

Federal disaster insurance - in the form of national flood insurance, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA …

questions: 1) How much asset and welfare risks does each region in the Philippines face from riverine flood disasters? 2) How … resilient is each region to riverine flood disasters? and 3) What are the available interventions per region to strengthen … resilience to riverine flood disasters and what will be their measured benefit? We study the 18 regions of the Philippines to …

Savings and Credit Associations (Roscas), a popular group-based financial institution world-wide, in the aftermath of the 2004 … disaster to different extents, we estimate the causal effect of this devastating economic shock on financial flows between …

critical insights into asset the exposure of, and direct and indirect impacts on, urban and rural entities. The flood impact … devastation and distress caused. It also highlights the heterogeneity of flood impacts and the potential to push the poor into a …

survey data from German homeowners, we analyze charity hazard for different flood precaution strategies, namely insurance … uptake and non-financial protection measures, and different flood risk areas. Our results indicate a substantial charity … hazard in the insurance market for individuals residing in flood-prone areas. In contrast, we find a positive correlation …

survey data from German homeowners, we analyze charity hazard for different flood precaution strategies and different flood …