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Destruction, Disinvestment, and DeathEconomic and Human Losses Following Environmental Disaster
Jesse K. Anttila-Hughes Solomon M. HsiangUniversity of San Francisco Princeton & UC Berkeley
June 10th, 2013ADB, Manila
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Motivation
Environmental disasters produce major social costs
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Motivation
Environmental disasters produce major social costs→
297,000 deaths & $193B in damage in 2010 (Swiss Re, 2011)
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Motivation
Environmental disasters produce major social costs→
297,000 deaths & $193B in damage in 2010 (Swiss Re, 2011)
Anecdotal evidence, humanitarian agency reports, and case studiessuggest that damages that accrue during disasters’ aftermath aresubstantial compared to immediate destruction, but harder to
document
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Motivation
Environmental disasters produce major social costs→
297,000 deaths & $193B in damage in 2010 (Swiss Re, 2011)
Anecdotal evidence, humanitarian agency reports, and case studiessuggest that damages that accrue during disasters’ aftermath aresubstantial compared to immediate destruction, but harder to
documentFew well-identified empirical studies of post-disasters outcomes exist,especially at the micro level
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Motivation
Environmental disasters produce major social costs→ 297,000 deaths & $193B in damage in 2010 (Swiss Re, 2011)
Anecdotal evidence, humanitarian agency reports, and case studiessuggest that damages that accrue during disasters’ aftermath aresubstantial compared to immediate destruction, but harder to
documentFew well-identified empirical studies of post-disasters outcomes exist,especially at the micro level
Recent results from the environment & development literature
suggest that even mild aggregate shocks can have very detrimentaldevelopment impacts, especially on human capital formation
Lagged indirect damages from severe aggregate shocks such asdisasters might have particularly negative effects on development
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Question
Do disasters influence economic development in ways that emerge
only after exposure to the physical event stops?
How large are lagged effects relative to immediate ones?
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Question
Do disasters influence economic development in ways that emerge
only after exposure to the physical event stops?
How large are lagged effects relative to immediate ones?
What mechanisms drive lagged losses?
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Question
Do disasters influence economic development in ways that emerge
only after exposure to the physical event stops?
How large are lagged effects relative to immediate ones?
What mechanisms drive lagged losses?
We systematically and quantitatively examine the effect of a specifictype of disaster (typhoons) on a specific set of outcomes (householdeconomic and health survey data) in a specific context (Philippines,1979-2008)
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Question
Do disasters influence economic development in ways that emerge
only after exposure to the physical event stops?
How large are lagged effects relative to immediate ones?
What mechanisms drive lagged losses?
We systematically and quantitatively examine the effect of a specifictype of disaster (typhoons) on a specific set of outcomes (householdeconomic and health survey data) in a specific context (Philippines,1979-2008)
Our results may generalize, with caveats, to some of the 2.3 billionpeople exposed to tropical cyclone risk.
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Question
Do disasters influence economic development in ways that emerge
only after exposure to the physical event stops?
How large are lagged effects relative to immediate ones?
What mechanisms drive lagged losses?
We systematically and quantitatively examine the effect of a specifictype of disaster (typhoons) on a specific set of outcomes (householdeconomic and health survey data) in a specific context (Philippines,1979-2008)
Our results may generalize, with caveats, to some of the 2.3 billionpeople exposed to tropical cyclone risk.
As well as inform the literature on the future costs of climate change
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Contributions
We find:
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Contributions
We find:
Post-disaster losses (human & economic) dramatically exceed
immediate losses
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Contributions
We find:
Post-disaster losses (human & economic) dramatically exceed
immediate losses
Post-disaster deaths are likely caused by deteriorating economicconditions
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Contributions
We find:
Post-disaster losses (human & economic) dramatically exceed
immediate losses
Post-disaster deaths are likely caused by deteriorating economicconditions
Specifically, we find that in the year following a typhoon:
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Contributions
We find:
Post-disaster losses (human & economic) dramatically exceed
immediate losses
Post-disaster deaths are likely caused by deteriorating economicconditions
Specifically, we find that in the year following a typhoon:household incomes decline
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Contributions
We find:
Post-disaster losses (human & economic) dramatically exceed
immediate losses
Post-disaster deaths are likely caused by deteriorating economicconditions
Specifically, we find that in the year following a typhoon:household incomes decline
households compensate by reducing expenditures
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Contributions
We find:
Post-disaster losses (human & economic) dramatically exceed
immediate losses
Post-disaster deaths are likely caused by deteriorating economicconditions
Specifically, we find that in the year following a typhoon:household incomes decline
households compensate by reducing expenditures
purchase of nutritious foods declines dramatically“investments” (eg. health, education) generally fall the most
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Contributions
We find:
Post-disaster losses (human & economic) dramatically exceed
immediate losses
Post-disaster deaths are likely caused by deteriorating economicconditions
Specifically, we find that in the year following a typhoon:household incomes decline
households compensate by reducing expenditures
purchase of nutritious foods declines dramatically“investments” (eg. health, education) generally fall the most
infant mortality rises sharply
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Contributions
We find:
Post-disaster losses (human & economic) dramatically exceed
immediate losses
Post-disaster deaths are likely caused by deteriorating economicconditions
Specifically, we find that in the year following a typhoon:household incomes decline
households compensate by reducing expenditures
purchase of nutritious foods declines dramatically“investments” (eg. health, education) generally fall the most
infant mortality rises sharply
overwhelmingly femalestructure exhibits an “economic fingerprint”risk is highest for infants competing with [male] siblings
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Background and data
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Prior literature
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Prior literature
Country-level regressions on estimated immediate damageseg. Strömberg (JEP, 2007); Loayza et al. (WB, 2009); Noy (JDE, 2009)
Damages reporting endogenous (Kahn - ReStat, 2005)
Hazard exposure measures, when used, are coarse Quote
Aggregation may obscure more subtle effects
Microeconomic analyses of non-catastrophic environmental losseseg. Townsend (JEP, 1995); Maccini & Yang (AER, 2009); Schlenker &Roberts (PNAS, 2009); Hidalgo et al. (ReStat, 2010)
Impact of capital destruction may differ from the impact of absentinputs or productivity changes
Adaptive responses may differ by event type and intensity
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Our approach: physical model microeconometrics
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Our approach: physical model, microeconometrics
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Our approach: physical model microeconometrics
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Our approach: physical model, microeconometrics
We build a physical model to estimate time-varying incidence of aspecific set of disasters (typhoons) using historical data on theirlocations and wind speeds
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Our approach: physical model microeconometrics
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Our approach: physical model, microeconometrics
We build a physical model to estimate time-varying incidence of aspecific set of disasters (typhoons) using historical data on theirlocations and wind speeds
We merge our region-specific time-varying measures of typhoonexposure with time-varying household survey data for those regions
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Our approach: physical model microeconometrics
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Our approach: physical model, microeconometrics
We build a physical model to estimate time-varying incidence of aspecific set of disasters (typhoons) using historical data on theirlocations and wind speeds
We merge our region-specific time-varying measures of typhoonexposure with time-varying household survey data for those regions
We then apply a quasi-experimental approach to make causalinferences about the effects of typhoon exposure on economic and
health outcomes
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What is a typhoon?
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What is a typhoon?
Typhoon - A tropical cyclone in the West Pacific. They are the same
phenomena as hurricanes/tropical storms (Atlantic) and cyclones (Indian);but different from tornados or thunderstorms.
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Source: NASA
Typhoon data
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Typhoon data
We estimate the maximum wind speed experienced at each location
(3.2×
3.2 km) for every typhoon using the Limited Information CycloneReconstruction and Integration for Climate and Economics (LICRICE)developed in Hsiang (PNAS, 2010). National damages vs. wind speed
2,246 storms (72,901 observations for 6hr intervals) in the West
Pacific basin during 1950-2008.411 storms passed over the Philippines during 1979-2008 (13.7storms/yr).
Take annual maximum and spatial average to aggregate over 81
administrative units.No explicit modeling of rain/flood/surge, but effects are captured tothe extent that they are correlated with winds.
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Typhoon reconstruction (LICRICE)
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Watch LICRICE Flipbook: Super Typhoon JoanJoan flipbook
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Typhoon climatology
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Identification strategy
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We may interpret typhoon incidence causally because:
Typhoon trajectory and intensity are stochastic, generating exogenousvariation in the timing of exposure
Typhoons are observed remotely (by satellite), so measurements areplausibly unbiased by local effects
Typhoon exposure is well defined in time and intensity, so treatment
effects and their lags are unambiguousHouseholds not exposed to typhoons allow us to control for temporaland spatial effects unrelated to typhoons (i.e., year and region fixedeffects)
Sorting on (conditioned) treatment is still a possible threat to the validityof our identification strategy→ where possible we restrict sample to non-migrants→ test and find little reason to believe sorting exists or is driving our result
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Economic data
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The Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) is a nationallyrepresentative cross-section administered every 3 years: 1985-2006.
174,896 households matched with typhoon exposure
HHs: 5.2 members, 63% electrified, 55% “strong walls”, 7% w/ car
HH heads: 85% male, 47.6 yrs old, 64% completed primary school
We find no evidence of typhoon-induced migration/sorting Table
Timing of FIES data collection
Health data
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The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) is a nationallyrepresentative cross-section administered every 5 years: 1993-2008.
Fertility, child and health data for women age 15-49Restrict sample to 24,841 non-migrant mothers(Kudamatsu, Persson, and Strömberg, 2011)
Women: 28.7 yrs old, 48% married, 2 children born
Reconstruct mother-by-year panel of child birth/death (265,430 obs.)
Survey Timing
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Results: Economic Losses
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Post-disaster income losses
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0 1 2 3 4
Income loss timing
(% per m/s)
Years after storm season
5−10 15−20 25−30 >35−5
0
5
10
15
20
Wind speed (m/s)
t y p h o o n
Income loss in Lag=1
(%)
−0.2
0
0.2
0.4
Robustness
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Households adjust by reducing expenditure
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0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Wind speed (m/s)
0-5 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-25 25-30 30-35 >35
medical
transport &
communicationeducation
food
fuel E x p e n d i t u r e
r e d u c t i o n s ( % )
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Households adjust by reducing expenditure (food)
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−5
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Wind speed (m/s)
0-5 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-25 25-30 30-35 >35
E x p e n d i t u r e
r e d u c t i o n s ( % )
meat
fish &
marine
dairy & eggs
fruit
cereal
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Results: Infant Mortality
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Post-disaster infant mortality
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0
40
80
Infant female deaths
(per million HH per m/s)
0−10 15−20 25−30 >35
0
1000
2000
3000
Infant female deaths in Lag = 1
(per million HH)
Years after storm season Wind speed (m/s)
t y p h o o n
Male response Robustness
What’s causing this post-disaster infant mortality?
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Observations
1 Income, food consumption & health spending decline post-typhoon
2 Infant mortality rises post-typhoon
3 Infant mortality is exclusively in female population (recall, eg.Bhalotra, JDE 2010)
Hypothesis: Post-disaster infant mortality represents “economic deaths,”not “exposure deaths”
Testable predictions
1 Mortality response should reflect ‘when’, ‘where ’, and ‘who ’ of
economic response2 Physical exposure to typhoon not necessary to trigger mortality
3 Resource competition exacerbates mortality
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Infant mortality mirrors economic response: “Where?”
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ILC
CGY
CLZ
SLZ
BIC
WVS
CVS
EVS
WMD
NMD
SMD
(slope = 0.91)0
1
2
0 1 2
Reduction in food expenditure
(% per m/s)
Lost income (% per m/s)
ILC
CGY
CLZ
SLZBIC
WVS
CVS
EVS
WMD
NMD
SMD
(slope = 68)
0
100
200
0 1 2
Female Infant Mortality
(deaths per 1M HH per m/s)
Lost income (% per m/s)
The magnitude of local income responses predicts local expenditure andmortality responses in the regional cross-section.
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Infant mortality mirrors economic response: “Who?”
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0.4
0.8
1.2
% p
e r m / s
Income centile
20 40 60 80
Expenditure centile
Expenditure reduction
(one year lag)
0
400
800
d e a t h s p e
r m i l l i o n H H ( p e r m / s )
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SES centile
95
Income reduction
(one year lag)
Female infant mortality
(one year lag)
Lagged responses appear uniform across income/expenditure/SESdistributions. Model specification
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Infant mortality mirrors economic response: “Who?”
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20 40 60 80
0
% p
e r m / s
Income centile
20 40 60 80
Expenditure centile
Expenditure reduction
(six year cumulative)
0
400
800
d e a t h s p e r m i l l i o n H H ( p e r m / s )
15 35 55 75
SES centile
95
Income reduction
(six year cumulative)
Female infant mortality
(six year cumulative)
0.4
0.8
1.2
Cumulative responses are larger for low income/expenditure/SEShouseholds.
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Half of affected infants are never exposed to the typhoon
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4
8
12
16
-12 -6 0 6
9 months
12 18 24 30 36 42 48
Months relative to typhoon strike
Cumulative female infant deaths (per million HH per m/s)
Births resulting
in mortality
Mortality
exposed
in-utero
Month oftyphoon
conceived after typhoon
Fetal loss Both genders
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Sibling competition increases post-disaster mortality risk
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Effect of wind speed on female infant mortality(lagged, deaths per million HH per m/s)
If first born 35.32[23.48]
Additional risk of having 75.70**any older siblings [25.35]
If has only older sisters 75.80[78.97]
Additional risk of having 53.18any older brothers [67.54]
If has only older brothers 121.2*
[57.1]Additional risk of having 0.41
any older sisters [40.1]
Standard errors in brackets. *p
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Implications and Discussion
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Post-disaster losses > 15× immediate lossesYear of typhoon Year after
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2
4
6
8
P e r c e n t o f i n c o m e
( 1 9 7 9 − 2 0 0 0 )
0.39% 743 6.59% 11,261
(official estimate) (this study)
economic
loss
(national est.)
economic
loss
(avg. HH)
“economic”
mortality
(infant)
“exposure”
mortality
(all ages)
4
8
12
16
T h o u s a n d d e a t h s ( 1 9 7 9 − 2 0 0 8 )
00
Average effects in an average year
Conceptual implications for policy Exposure by country
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Environmental policy - Substantial losses are mediated by
human-to-human dynamics, not just environment-to-human dynamics.
Development policy - Average exposure has a large economic effect, andmay influence outcomes years later.
Global climate policy - Adaptation to typhoons remains difficult, even forpopulations with centuries of experience. Evidence of adaptation
Disaster relief policy - Interventions that focus on post-disasteroutcomes may have large social gains.
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“Elvira Soriano, 25, and her child Rea, 1, sit on a wooden bed withtheir belongings after their house was destroyed by Typhoon Megi.”EPA/DENNIS M. SABANGAN
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Extra Slides
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Regressing GDP on observed damages
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[T]he exogeneity issue can potentially be fully overcome by producing an index of disaster intensity that depends only on the physical characteristics of the disaster... The collection of suchdata from primary sources and the construction of acomprehensive index for the all the different disaster types are
beyond the scope of this paper but may be worth pursing infuture research.
-Ilan Noy, Journal of Development Economics, 2009
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Aggregate economic damages - Philippines (EM-DAT)
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Typhoons in Provinces of the Philippines: 1950−2008
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CagayanIsabelaKalinga
ApayaoIlocos Norte
Mountain ProvinceIfugao
Abra
Camarines NorteIlocos Sur
Aurora
QuirinoCatanduanes
Nueva Vizcaya
BenguetNueva Ecija
Camarines Sur
La UnionQuezon
Pangasinan
RizalBulacan
AlbaySamar
Zambales
Metropolitan ManilaLagunaTarlac
Eastern SamarPampanga
Northern Samar
BataanMasbate
Sorsogon
BiliranCavite
BatangasMarinduque
Oriental Mindoro
RomblonLeyte
Occidental Mindoro
AklanCapizIloilo
AntiqueDinagat IslandsSouthern Leyte
CebuGuimaras
Surigao del NorteNegros Occidental
Bohol
Agusan del NorteSurigao del SurNegros Oriental
PalawanCamiguin
Agusan del Sur
SiquijorMisamis Oriental
Misamis Occidental
BukidnonCompostela ValleyLanao del Norte
Davao del NorteLanao del Sur
Davao Oriental
Zamboanga del NorteZamboanga del Sur
North CotabatoShariff Kabunsuan
Zamboanga Sibugay
Davao del SurMaguindanao
Tawi−Tawi
SuluSultan Kudarat
South Cotabato
Data Assets Income All exp. Food exp. Female Mortality
FIES data is balanced on observables
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Single Household head characteristics
Total family Completed Completedfamily dwelling Married Male primary secondary
VARIABLES size (%) (%) (%) Uneducated school school
Max windspeed 5-10 m/s 0.0594 -0.81 0.30 -0.30 1.02 -3.06** -0.45[0.0603] [1.27] [0.53] [0.42] [0.81] [1.27] [0.97]
10-15 m/s 0.1480* -1.12 0.68 -0.17 0.67 -2.69* -0.24[0.0781] [1.60] [0.66] [0.65] [0.85] [1.55] [1.27]
15-20 m/s 0.1205 -0.68 0.50 0.25 0.83 -3.00* -1.04
[0.0864] [1.77] [0.65] [0.63] [0.86] [1.64] [1.39]20-25 m/s 0.1968* -0.91 0.70 0.76 0.96 -3.26 0.40[0.1000] [1.84] [0.77] [0.78] [1.02] [2.05] [1.68]
25-30 m/s 0.0748 -0.15 0.28 0.85 0.24 -1.41 2.64[0.1099] [1.87] [0.81] [0.81] [1.06] [2.20] [1.88]
30-35 m/s 0.0808 0.81 0.44 0.53 0.97 -2.14 2.59[0.1139] [2.03] [1.05] [1.04] [1.11] [2.09] [1.82]
35+ m/s 0.1046 -0.49 0.67 1.55* 0.73 -1.21 3.13[0.1171] [2.09] [0.98] [0.90] [1.16] [2.29] [1.94]
Observations 142,789 142,789 142,789 142,789 142,789 142,789 142,789R-squared 0.0145 0.02 0.01 0.01 0.08 0.14 0.24
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% change SE N
Entrep. income -0.28** [0.11] 96,989Crop farming / gardening income -0.29 [0.21] 52,193Trade income -0.18 [0.18] 30,479Livestock / poultry income -0.46 [0.44] 17,158
Gambling winnings 0.28 [0.46] 10,776Fishing income -0.40 [0.24] 10,258Manufact. income 0.08 [0.42] 8,715Transport / storage income 0.15 [0.26] 7,855Services income -0.10 [0.45] 7,011
Forestry / hunting income -0.44 [0.71] 2,537N.A. / entrep. income -1.04 [0.96] 1,454Construct. income -1.56 [1.24] 870
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Infant Infant Infant Infant Infantfemale female female female female
VARIABLES mortality mortality mortality mortality mortality
Max wind speed, T=0 (m/s) -26.15 -18.11 20.31 17.13 23.01(16.68) (18.25) (17.30) (18.22) (23.34)
T + 1 30.44* 27.68* 63.48*** 68.15*** 74.68***(14.98) (14.92) (19.43) (20.85) (21.12)
T + 2 -7.044 -17.00 17.85 22.80 30.34(8.896) (9.758) (15.67) (16.31) (17.99)
T + 3 15.15 2.132 36.05** 31.74** 39.53**(13.02) (14.65) (14.29) (13.92) (16.20)
T + 4 5.903 1.003 39.29 35.65 42.83(15.87) (18.45) (22.65) (25.66) (25.25)
Observations 265,446 265,446 265,446 265,446 265,446
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year add add add region prov.Wind F.E. prov. HH temp. treat. collapse
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t 0.26 -0.10 0.02 -0.00 0.27 -0.01[0.26] [0.14] [0.15] [0.18] [0.16] [0.15]
t − 1 -0.88*** -0.33*** -0.35*** -0.39*** -0.58*** -0.39***[0.19] [0.09] [0.09] [0.10] [0.14] [0.14]
t − 2 1.04*** 0.01 0.00 -0.16 -0.17 0.02[0.32] [0.10] [0.08] [0.12] [0.14] [0.14]
t − 3 0.16 -0.14 -0.17 0.04 -0.22 0.29[0.17] [0.14] [0.13] [0.15] [0.15] [0.18]
Obs. 142,789 142,789 142,779 142,779 174,896 367R2 0.32 0.38 0.57 0.57 0.55 0.95
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