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Essays in Environmental Economics: Exploring the Effects of Extreme Events
Essays in Environmental Economics: Exploring the Effects of Extreme Events
Essays in Environmental Economics: Exploring the Effects of Extreme Events

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20260202103824
ISBN  
9798315790044
DDC  
363
저자명  
Wang, Victoria Lea.
서명/저자  
Essays in Environmental Economics: Exploring the Effects of Extreme Events
발행사항  
[Sl] : University of California, Los Angeles, 2025
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
형태사항  
251 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-12, Section: B.
주기사항  
Advisor: Wang, Victoria;Lleras-Muney, Adriana.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2025.
초록/해제  
요약Wildfires are destructive and are expected to become more costly and affect more people in the future. This dissertation investigates how wildfires impact people's migration decisions, the financial consequences of these disasters, and the impact of government aid in three chapters. The first chapter evaluates adaptive migration - the movement from risky to safe areas - as a potential adaptation strategy. Granular, address-level credit and migration data are combined with wildfire and risk measures to trace the locations of residents over time, before and after the fire. The empirical strategy leverages the quasi-random trajectory of the wildfire. The results indicate that people living in blocks that burned for the first time are 6.5 p.p. (18.5%) more likely to remain away, even after four years. Although migration initially leads to safe tracts after two years, this effect vanishes by the fourth year. When focusing on financially unconstrained subgroups, people are statistically significantly more likely to be in safe areas, suggesting that financial constraints may prevent adaptive migration.The second chapter assesses how experiencing a megafire - a fire that burns over 100,000 acres - affects an individual's household finances and neighborhood decision. There is evidence of financial distress: Credit scores fall and active debt collections rise. Moreover, the likelihood of having a mortgage drops by 5.3 points (19.7 percent) at two years and remains 3.0 points (10.6 percent) lower at four years. Examining the characteristics of their destinations, the impacted individuals settle in areas with higher amenities, although they are also more expensive.The third chapter evaluates the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)'s Individuals and Households Program (IHP). Using political competitiveness as an instrument for aid receipt, I find that IHP increases migration by 33.0 p.p. yet does not improve migration to safe areas, unsurprising given its non-targeted design. Aid recipients experience substantially less financial distress and greater access to credit, underscoring IHP's role in alleviating immediate hardship even though it falls short of promoting adaptive migration. Together, these findings highlight financial barriers to climate-driven adaptation and suggest policy changes to align disaster relief with long-term resilience.
일반주제명  
Climate change
키워드  
Adaptation
키워드  
Adaptive migration
키워드  
Wildfires
키워드  
Migration
키워드  
Natural disasters
기타저자  
University of California, Los Angeles Economics 0246
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-12B.
전자적 위치 및 접속  
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