Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death: Economic and Human Losses Following Environmental Disaster

By J. Anttila-Hughes, Solomon Hsiang. 2013

263 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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In Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

1. Ruth Vargas Hill
2. Catherine Porter

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Ruth Vargas Hill
2. Benjamin A. Olken
3. Benjamin F. Jones
4. P. V. Bergeijk
5. Yanos Zylberberg
6. S. Lazzaroni
7. Melissa Dell
8. A. Gröger

In Soil Science

1. Yanos Zylberberg
2. A. Gröger
3. Ruth Vargas Hill
4. P. V. Bergeijk
5. S. Lazzaroni
6. Melissa Dell
7. Benjamin F. Jones
8. Benjamin A. Olken

Citations in the corpus

• Internal Labor Migration as a Shock Coping Strategy: Evidence from a Typhoon (2016, background): “Typical examples for long-term cost may be malnutrition because of reduced food consumption (Subramanian and Deaton 1996), mortality due to insufficient health care (Anttila-Hughes and Hsiang 2013), lack of business investment, or forgone accumulation of human capital, for example through child labo”
• What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature (2014, background): “In the developing world, Anttila-Hughes and Hsiang (2011) find that”
• Childhood Circumstances and Adult Outcomes: Act II (2018, unknown): “For example, Anttila-Hughes and Hsiang (2013) study natural disasters and show that the short-run mortality effects are followed by arguably more important future disinvestments which occur with a lag and kill girls.! 8 !”
• Social and economic impacts of climate (2016, unknown): “Anttila-Hughes and Hsiang 2012 (49) Mortality rate, total deaths Philippines 1950–2008 Realized typhoon-induced “economic” deaths account for 13% of the overall infant mortality rate .. .. ... ... .. ... .. ... ... .. ... ... .. ... .. ... ... .. ... ... .. ... ... .. ... .. ... ... .. ... ... ..…”
• Natural disasters' impact, factors of resilience and development: A meta-analysis of the macroeconomic literature (2014, background): “In our sample 31 studies investigate direct costs, 28 analyze indirect costs and 5 studies (Anttila-Hughes and Hsiang, 2013; Deryugina, 2013; Felbermayr and Gröschl, 2013a; Jackson, 2013; Zylberberg, 2012) consider both cost categories.”
• Informing Climate Adaptation: A Review of the Economic Costs of Natural Disasters, Their Determinants, and Risk Reduction Options (2012, unknown): “Anttila-Hughes and Hsiang (2011) look at tropical cyclones in the Philippines using a province-level panel data set of storm incidence based on wind data coupled to household survey data.”
• Vulnerability to drought and food price shocks : evidence from Ethiopia (2016, methodology): “We rely on the following observation to address this: although variation in the probability distribution of Shjkt may not be considered exogenous to welfare across households, the timing of a shock conditional on its distribution is exogenous (Thomas et al., 2010; Anttila-Hughes and Hsiang, 2013).”
• The effect of natural disasters on economic activity in US counties: A century of data (2020, unknown): “We add to a small body of work studying disasters within a country, including Anttila-Hughes and Hsiang (2013), which analyzes more than 2,000 typhoons in the Philippines.”