of a natural experiment created by the European Flood of August 2002. Using micro data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel that we combine with geographic flood data, we compare the savings behavior of affected and non-affected individuals …

households once they are hit by a disaster. The paper also lays out existing knowledge gaps, particularly in regard to the need …

on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts … the disaster. The response to hurricanes does not seem to be driven by logrolling behavior or lobbysts' pressure. The …

This paper studies how having your home damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster impacts on economic and financial … employment and income, but increases financial hardship and financial risk aversion. These impacts are generally short …

individuals who recently suffered a flood or earthquake exhibit more risk aversion than individuals living in otherwise like …We study whether natural disasters affect risk-taking behavior exploiting geographic variation in exposure to natural … disasters. We conduct standard risk games (using real money) with randomly selected individuals in Indonesia and find that …

We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well‐being in another industrialized country, more … monetized health costs worth €250 per distressed citizen – particularly among risk averse women …

We estimate whether risk preferences are affected by traumatic events by using a unique survey of Sri Lankan twins … civil war, validated measures of mental health and risk preferences, and a rich set of control variables. Our estimation … wealth shocks and/or changes in mental health. We find that both events lead to less risk aversion, a result that is not …