I study the effect of risk-based flood insurance pricing on welfare and climate damages in the
US I estimate my results with flood insurance policy data and a novel survey measuring …

We describe the initial impact of risk-based flood insurance pricing in the United States.
More than two-thirds of National Flood Insurance Program policyholders are paying higher …

This paper studies whether private adaptation to flood risk is economically efficient. We
estimate the return to elevating houses, one of the most significant private defensive …

While flood damage is determined by both flood intensity and population exposure, the US
has predominantly focused on managing the former, with limited success. This paper studies …

The high and increasing cost of natural disasters around the world motivates a growing body
of literature on the role of natural disaster insurance in adapting to climate change. This …

This paper examines the provision of official flood risk information in the United States and
its distributional impacts on residential flood insurance take-up. Assembling new data on all …

Mounting costs of anthropogenic climate change reveal that adaptation will be essential to
human well-being in coming decades. At the same time, the literature on the economics of …

We develop a new dataset to study homeowners insurance. Our data on over 47 million
observations of households' property insurance expenditures from 2014-2023 are inferred …

Climate change presents new risks for property in the United States. Due to the high cost
and sometimes unavailability of location-specific property risk data, home buyers can greatly …

Global warming threatens the livelihoods of 600 million low-income agricultural workers. I
study how farmers learn about the environment and the consequences for climate change …