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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"federal disaster aid"”.
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An analysis of outcomes for FEMA individual assistance recipients in the context of social vulnerability
Natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, and wildfires have been increasing both in frequency and in the cost of damages. Different communities experience disasters differently, from the immediate losses to the long-term recovery process. Age, disability, race, housing status, and …
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Relationship Building and Pre-Disaster Planning: Effective Strategies for Rural Resilience Following the 2016 West Virginia Floods
… Rural communities face challenges to disaster recovery, but they can also benefit from increased social capital and population homogeneity that reduces cultural and language barriers and has the potential to improve coordination and collaboration. Financial and coordination barriers, …
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Essays in Public Finance and Environmental Policy
… chapter studies the distributional properties of federal disaster aid and how barriers to take-up vary across the income distribution. Using applicant-level microdata from FEMA’s primary emergency relief program from 2002-2019, I find that lower-income households receive more aid in expectation, …
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Rebuilding Coastal Mississippi Following Hurricane Katrina: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis
… unit or community's ability to recover from a disaster or what determines the rate of recovery in time. This study uses building permits issued in the three coastal counties of Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina to track recovery of the built environment. This study provides insight into …