National survey evidence on disasters and relief: Risk beliefs, self-interest, and compassion

By W. Kip Viscusi, Richard J. Zeckhauser. 2006

124 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Emergency Medical Services, Sociology and Political Science

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In Emergency Medical Services

1. J. van den Bergh
2. W. Botzen
3. Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts

In Sociology and Political Science

1. W. Botzen
2. E. Michel-Kerjan
3. J. van den Bergh
4. Howard Kunreuther
5. Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts

Citations in the corpus

• Dependence of flood risk perceptions on socioeconomic and objective risk factors (2009, background): “[23] Several studies have elicited individual risk perceptions compared with a national average [e.g., Viscusi and Zeckhauser, 2006; A. M. Leiter, The sense of snow: Individuals’ perception of fatal avalanche events, working manuscript, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of…”
• Divergence between individual perceptions and objective indicators of tail risks: Evidence from floodplain residents in New York City (2015, background): “…of a low probability event on samples where the event did not occur (Hertwig et al. 2004; Fox and Hadar 2006) and overestimate its likelihood if they have experienced the disaster (Brilly and Polic 2005; Ruin, Gaillard, and Lutoff 2007; Siegrist and Gutscher 2006; Viscusi and Zeckhauser 2006).”
• What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Racial Group Loyalty (2009, unknown): “2 See Fershtman and Gneezy (2001) and Burns (2004) on dictator games and Devah Pager and Jeremy Freese (2006) on unemployment benefits.”