The Fiscal Cost of Hurricanes: Disaster Aid versus Social Insurance

Deryugina, Tatyana

doi:10.1257/pol.20140296

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“…Nondisaster transfers per capita in affected counties increase by about $1000 (compared with $150 for dedicated postdisaster support). Most of these transfers are from Medicare (especially disability) and unemployment insurance (Deryugina 2016). Strong social programs thus increase people's resilience even in the absence of explicit disaster-related triggers.…”

Section: Safety Net Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Poverty to Disaster and Back: a Review of the Literature

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Poor people are disproportionally affected by natural hazards and disasters. This paper provides a review of the multiple factors that explain why this is the case. It explores the role of exposure (often, but not always, poor people are more likely to be affected by hazards), vulnerability (when they are affected, poor people tend to lose a larger fraction of their wealth), and socioeconomic resilience (poor people have a lower ability to cope with and recover from disaster impacts). Finally, the paper highlights the vicious circle between poverty and disaster losses: poverty is a major driver of people's vulnerability to natural disasters, which in turn increase poverty in a measurable and significant way. The main policy implication is that poverty reduction can be considered as disaster risk management, and disaster risk management can be considered as poverty reduction.

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Section: Safety Net Programsmentioning

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From Poverty to Disaster and Back: a Review of the Literature

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“…Transfers from government Prior studies have found that federal government transfers increase following natural disasters (Healy and Malhotra, 2009;Deryugina, 2017), but whether temperature changes lead to a systematic change in the distribution of transfers from the government generally is unknown. In particular, it is plausible that transfers might offset some income losses due to temperature such that we do not observe them-if such masking is occurring it would cause us to under-estimate the marginal product of temperature in our main analysis.…”

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The Marginal Product of Climate

Deryugina¹,

Hsiang²

2017

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and Yale for discussions and comments. We thank Tamma Carleton, Michael Delgado, DJ Rasmussen, and Andrew Wilson for research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.

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“…Figure 3a shows estimated effects of Hurricane Katrina on annual mortality (equation 2, solid black lines) as well as on cumulative mortality (equation 3 Using a value of $100,000 per life-year (Cutler, 2004) and a discount rate of 3 percent (Siegel, 1992) (Strobl, 2011;Deryugina, 2017;Boustan et al, 2017).…”

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Does When You Die Depend on Where You Live? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina

Deryugina

Molitor

2018

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We follow Medicare cohorts over time and space to estimate Hurricane Katrina's long-run mortality effects on elderly and disabled victims initially living in New Orleans. Inclusive of the initial shock, the hurricane improved survival eight years past the storm by 1.74 percentage points. Migration to lower-mortality regions explains most of this survival increase. Migrants to low-versus high-mortality regions look similar at baseline, but migrants' subsequent mortality is 0.83-0.90 percentage points lower for each percentage-point reduction in local mortality, quantifying causal effects of place on mortality among this population. By contrast, migrants' mortality is unrelated to local Medicare spending.

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The Fiscal Cost of Hurricanes: Disaster Aid versus Social Insurance

Cited by 141 publications

References 29 publications

From Poverty to Disaster and Back: a Review of the Literature

From Poverty to Disaster and Back: a Review of the Literature

The Marginal Product of Climate

Does When You Die Depend on Where You Live? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina

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