income, employment, total income, and marriage; and no impact on divorce or fertility. Within just a few years, Katrina … victims' incomes fully recover and even surpass that of controls from similar cities that were unaffected by the storm. The … warning. Our results suggest that, at least in this particular disaster, aid to cover destroyed assets and short-run income …

losses magnified in countries with less historical cyclone experience. Income losses arise from a small but persistent …

meteorological data on storm paths, I construct a time-varying storm index that takes into account the fraction of a country … increases in foreign aid. For other types of international financial flows, the impact of hurricanes varies according to income …

We estimate the trend in the transitory variance of male earnings in the U.S. using the Michigan Panel Study of Income …

earnings shocks and find important asymmetries: positive shocks to high-income individuals are quite transitory, whereas … negative shocks are very persistent; the opposite is true for low-income individuals. Finally, we use these rich sets of …

respondents' perceptions of the income, race, and deservingness of Katrina victims in one of two small cities. Respondents then … income manipulation had a significant effect on giving; respondents gave more when they perceived the victims to be poorer … victims was significantly influenced by both our race and deservingness manipulations, but not by the income manipulation …