Economics of Disasters and Climate Change

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The Effect of Disasters on Migration Destinations: Evidence from Hurricane Katrina

Jonathan Eyer, Robert Dinterman, Noah Miller, Adam Rose

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change > 2018 > 2 > 1 > 91-106

While post-disaster migration can move vulnerable populations from dangerous regions to relatively safe ones, little is known about decisions that migrants use to select new homes. We develop an econometric model of migrant flows to examine the characteristics of the destinations that attracted migrants leaving the New Orleans area following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 relative to migration behaviors...

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Economics of Disasters and Climate Change – The Journal’s First Year

Ilan Noy, Shunsuke Managi, Stephane Hallegatte

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change > 2018 > 2 > 1 > 1-3

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How Flood Damages to Public Infrastructure Affect Municipal Budget Indicators

Christian Unterberger

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change > 2018 > 2 > 1 > 5-20

Countries’ economic activity as well as their fiscal position are vulnerable to climate- and weather related extreme events. Existing research shows that effects on GDP may be either positive or negative, while fiscal implications are clearly negative. Current literature focuses on fiscal implications at the national level. Predicted increases in climate- and weather related extreme events, though,...

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The Impact of Disaster Data on Estimating Damage Determinants and Climate Costs

Laura A. Bakkensen, Xiangying Shi, Brianna D. Zurita

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change > 2018 > 2 > 1 > 49-71

An active literature utilizes natural disaster data to analyze damage determinants and estimate future costs of climate change. However, despite its importance in research and policy, no international standard exists to quantify damages, and the impact of damage data quality on empirical estimates remains an open question. Using the case of tropical cyclone landfalls in China, we analyze three damage...

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Before a Fall: Impacts of Earthquake Regulation on Commercial Buildings

Levente Timar, Arthur Grimes, Richard Fabling

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change > 2018 > 2 > 1 > 73-90

We test whether the major earthquakes in Christchurch (Canterbury, New Zealand) affected prices of earthquake-prone commercial buildings in Wellington, a city that was directly unaffected by the disaster. Specifically, we test whether official declaration of a Wellington building as earthquake-prone (with a requirement for remediation to minimum earthquake code standards) had an effect on sale price...

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The Impact of Disasters on Inflation

Miles Parker

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change > 2018 > 2 > 1 > 21-48

This paper studies how disasters affect consumer price inflation. There is a marked heterogeneity in the impact between advanced economies, where the impact is negligible, and developing economies, where the impact can last for several years. There are also differences in the impact by type of disasters, particularly when considering inflation sub-indices. Storms increase food price inflation in the...

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Climate Impacts, Political Institutions, and Leader Survival: Effects of Droughts and Flooding Precipitation

Oleg Smirnov, Martin C. Steinwand, Tingyin Xiao, Minghua Zhang

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change > 2018 > 2 > 2 > 181-201

We explore how the political survival of leaders in different political regimes is affected by drought and flooding precipitation, which are the two major anticipated impacts of anthropogenic climate change. Using georeferenced climate data for the entire world and the Archigos dataset for the period of 1950–2010, we find that irregular political exits, such as coups or revolutions, are not significantly...

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The Impact of the 2006 Yogyakarta Earthquake on Local Economic Growth

Aloysius Gunadi Brata, Henri L. F. de Groot, Wouter Zant

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change > 2018 > 2 > 2 > 203-224

This paper focuses on the local economic growth impacts of a specific natural disaster, viz. the Yogyakarta earthquake in 2006 employing data at the sub-national level in two provinces in Java, Indonesia. Specifically, we are concerned with the heterogeneity in the response of the various economic sectors to the earthquake, the spatial economic spill-overs from the affected regions to the non-affected...

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Floods and Pestilence: Diseases in Philippine Urban Areas

Rio Yonson

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change > 2018 > 2 > 2 > 107-135

Do floods affect the probability for urban households to suffer from diseases? We study Cagayan de Oro, a highly-urbanized city in the Philippines that exhibits many of the common characteristics of urban areas in middle-income countries. We find that bronchitis, respiratory tract infection, influenza, chicken pox, measles, typhoid fever, diarrhea, leptospirosis, dengue, hypertension, and heart diseases...

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Effects of Drought and Flood on Farmer Suicides in Indian States: An Empirical Analysis

Yashobanta Parida, Devi Prasad Dash, Parul Bhardwaj, Joyita Roy Chowdhury

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change > 2018 > 2 > 2 > 159-180

The study examines the effects of drought and flood on farmer suicides using state-level panel data from 17 Indian states for the period 1995–2011. The empirical estimates based on unconditional fixed effect Negative Binomial model show that while drought significantly increases farmer suicides, flood has no direct impact on the same. The results also show that incidence of farmer suicides is higher...

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The Impact of Natural Disasters on Education in Indonesia

J. V. Rush

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change > 2018 > 2 > 2 > 137-158

Indonesian government data on enrollment in primary and lower secondary school are used with data from the DesInventar database on natural disasters to explore the ways natural disasters influence district level enrollment in education. The paper employs regional fixed effects models, beginning with a simple model controlling for time and region and then exploring the inclusion of poverty, literacy,...

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Shelter from the Storm? Household-Level Impacts of, and Responses to, the 2015 Floods in Malawi

Nancy McCarthy, Talip Kilic, Alejandro de la Fuente, Joshua M. Brubaker

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change > 2018 > 2 > 3 > 237-258

As extreme weather events intensify due to climate change, it becomes ever more critical to understand how vulnerable households are to these events and the mechanisms households can rely on to minimize losses effectively. This paper analyzes the impacts of the floods that occurred during the 2014/15 growing season in Malawi, using a two-period panel data set. The results show that maize yields and...

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The Short-Term Economic Impact of Tropical Cyclones: Satellite Evidence from Guangdong Province

Alejandro Valle, Robert J. R. Elliott, Eric Strobl, Meng Tong

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change > 2018 > 2 > 3 > 225-235

This paper is the first to examine the short term local economic impact of tropical cyclones by estimating the effects on monthly nightlight intensity. More specifically, for Guangdong Province in Southern China, we proxy monthly economic activity with remote sensing derived monthly night time light intensity and combine this with local measures of wind speed derived from a tropical cyclone wind field...

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Turning to God in Tough Times? Human Versus Material Losses from Climate Disasters in Canada

Oscar Zapata

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change > 2018 > 2 > 3 > 259-281

Formal and informal insurance mechanisms help people recover from material losses associated with climate disasters. However, people may also find other ways to cope with human losses caused by disasters and research has suggested that religion may provide psychological relief to individuals experiencing adversity. Here, I test whether climate disasters have a causal effect on religious preferences...

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A Heuristic Approach to the Estimation of Key Parameters for a Monthly, Recursive, Dynamic CGE Model

Masato Yamazaki, Atsushi Koike, Yoshinori Sone

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change > 2018 > 2 > 3 > 283-301

As economic losses brought about by natural disasters mount, assessing the economic impact of a possible future natural disaster is becoming increasingly important. A computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and an input-output (I-O) model are strong candidates for performing such an assessment. Even though a CGE model is more comprehensive and flexible than an I-O model, the CGE approach is often...

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ADAPTATION (1)
CANADA (1)
CHINA (1)
CLIMATE CHANGE (1)
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COMMERCIAL PROPERTY (1)
COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL (1)
COUNT MODEL (1)
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DEMOCRACY (1)
DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT (1)
DISEASES (1)
EARTHQUAKE-PRONE BUILDINGS (1)
ECONOMIC GROWTH (1)
ECONOMIC IMPACT (1)
ECONOMIC IMPACTS (1)
ECONOMIC LOSS (1)
EDUCATION (1)
ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION (1)
EXTREME DROUGHT (1)
EXTREME EVENTS (1)
EXTREME WEATHER (1)
FARMER SUICIDES (1)
FLOOD DAMAGE ASSESSMENT (1)
FLOOD RISK (1)
FLOODING PRECIPITATION (1)
HOUSEHOLD WELFARE (1)
HURRICANE KATRINA (1)
INDIAN STATES (1)
INDONESIA (1)
INFLATION (1)
INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODEL (1)
IV ESTIMATION (1)
LITERACY (1)
MALAWI (1)
MATERIAL AND HUMAN LOSSES (1)
NIGHTLIGHT IMAGERY (1)
PHILIPPINES (1)
POLITICAL LEADER SURVIVAL (1)
POST-DISASTER MIGRATION (1)
POVERTY (1)
PROPERTY PRICES (1)
PULL FACTORS (1)
RELIGIOUS PREFERENCES (1)
RURAL POVERTY (1)
SALES PROBABILITY (1)
SHOCKS (1)
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (1)
TROPICAL CYCLONES (1)
TYPHOONS (1)
URBAN (1)
WIND FIELD MODEL (1)
YOGYAKARTA EARTHQUAKE (1)
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