Natural disasters are one of the major problems facing humankind. Natural disasters cause
deaths and injuries, property losses, social instability, resource shortages and economic …

Natural disaster risk assessments typically consider environmental hazard and physical
damage, neglecting to quantify how asset losses affect households' well-being. However, for …

This article analyses the effects of natural disasters on human development and poverty
levels at the municipal level in Mexico. Using several sources, we build a panel of data in …

This paper examines the impact of floods on the firms' capital accumulation, employment
growth and productivity by using a difference-in-difference (DID) approach and considering …

I investigate the impact of unemployment on crime using a country-level panel data set from
Europe that contains consistently measured crime statistics. Unemployment has a positive …

The effect of hurricanes on the labor market is not obvious. According to Robert Lucas and
Leonard Rapping 119692, when people perceive a shock as having a temporary effect, they …

This study improves upon the Difference in Difference approach by examining exogenous
shocks using a Generalized Difference in Difference (GDD) technique that identifies …

In this study, we examine the vulnerability and resiliency of 10 tourism-based regional
economies which include US national parks or seashores (situated on the Gulf of Mexico or …

We use data from the monthly Current Population Survey to examine the short-and longer-
term effects of Hurricane Katrina on the labor market outcomes of prime-age individuals in …

The theory about the impacts of natural disasters on firms is ambiguous and the empirical
evidence on this topic is scarce, which hampers the design of disaster risk reduction and …