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Not very. We find that weather disasters over the last quarter century had insignificant or small effects on U.S. banks' performance. This stability seems endogenous rather than a mere reflection of federal aid. Disasters increase loan demand, which offsets losses and actually boosts profits at...
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We study how air pollution impacts the U.S. labor market by analyzing effects of drifting wildfire smoke that can affect populations far from the fires themselves. We link satellite smoke plume with labor market outcomes to estimate that an additional day of smoke exposure reduces quarterly...
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and intensity of fire events, the study employs year and country fixed effects to show that wildfires exacerbate economic … for every additional unit increase in the number of wildfires (incidence) and fire radiative power (intensity …
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Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity. We study the impact of exposure to wildfires on air pollutants and … which fires occur, we estimate causal impacts of exposure to wildfires. We find considerable impacts. Exposure to a large … in exposure to large wildfires is estimated to increase rates of respiratory hospitalizations by 0.75%, while the effect …
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Understanding that the environment is more than the resource base of human economic activities was a watershed in the awareness of the real value of the environment and the need for an assessment of its quality. The complex of benefits from ecosystems that people obtain in the literature became...
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