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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

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    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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    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

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    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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    −5

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    10

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    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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    Wind speed (m/s)

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      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 1 2 3 4

    0

    40

    80

    Infant female deaths

    (per million HH per m/s)

    0−10 15−20 25−30 >35

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    2000

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    Infant female deaths in Lag = 1

    (per million HH)

    Years after storm season Wind speed (m/s)

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    Male response   Robustness

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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

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    Reduction in food expenditure

    (% per m/s)

    Lost income (% per m/s)

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    CGY

    CLZ

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    WVS

    CVS

    EVS

    WMD

    NMD

    SMD

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    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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    20 40 60 80

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    Income centile

    20 40 60 80

    Expenditure centile

    Expenditure reduction

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      r  m   i   l   l   i  o  n   H   H   (  p  e  r  m   /  s   )

    15 35 55 75

    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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    20 40 60 80

    0

       %   p

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    Income centile

    20 40 60 80

    Expenditure centile

    Expenditure reduction

    (six year cumulative)

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    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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    0

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    12

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    -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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    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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    [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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    0 20 40 60

    Annual maximum wind speed (m/s)

    Batanes

    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

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    (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)

    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

    Out of 49 parameter estimates, six have  p  

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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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    0 1 2 3 4

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    Years after storm season

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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

    Year FE Y Y Y YRegion FE Y YLagged temp., precip. Y YMother FE Y

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    Typhoon impacts on birth rates

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    Months r elative to typhoon impact

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    ILC

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    Income lost (%) per 1 m/s in wind speed exposure

    climatological wind speed (m/s)

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    Adaptation has limited impact on average cost

    Average income lost from previous year’s storm(regional coefficient × climatology)

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    Madagascar

    Philippines

    Bangladesh

    Japan

    Haiti

    United States

    Vietnam

    PanamaZimbabweThe Maldives

    Nicaragua

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    Are assets present the year following a typhoon?   Exposure dist.

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    Dependent variable is  Income  (%)

    (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

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    year add add add region prov.Wind   F.E. prov. HH temp. treat. collapse

    (m/s) F.E. controls precip.

    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

    Standard error in brackets: clustered by region (1-5), Conley/HAC (6).

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