Wildfire is a natural phenomenon with substantial economic consequences, and its management is complex, dynamic, and rife with incentive problems. This article reviews the …
We show that housing markets provide information about the appropriate discount rates for valuing investments in climate change abatement. Real estate is exposed to both …
We study the dynamic responses of local economies after natural disasters in the US using county-level data over the past four decades. We find disasters increase income total and …
We estimate the impact of wildfires on the growth rate of gross domestic product (GDP) and employment of regional economies in Southern Europe from 2011 to 2018. To this end we …
H Buechi, P Weber, S Heard, D Cameron… - … journal of wildland …, 2021 - CSIRO Publishing
In 2017 and 2018, wildfires in California burned millions of hectares and caused billions of dollars in structure damages. This paper puts these recent fires in a long-term historical …
This study measures the degree to which large public expenditures on wildfire protection subsidize development in harm's way. Using administrative firefighting data, we calculate …
Rapidly improving data and models are giving homeowners more information about their disaster risk while also increasing insurance premiums for the highest risk homes. In this …
J Paudel - Economics of Education Review, 2023 - Elsevier
Although the threat of forest fires is prevalent across the globe, there exists limited empirical evidence on how such environmental disasters influence access and equity in educational …
We study the causal effect of providing information about climate change on individuals' willingness to pay to offset carbon emissions in a survey experiment. Receiving truthful …