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Working Papers

2023

1. Charting the Course: How Does Information about Sea Level Rise Affect the Willingness to Migrate?
   Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
2. Fatal Errors: The Mortality Value of Accurate Weather Forecasts
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)
   Also in Working Papers, U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies (2023) View citations (11)
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER (2023) View citations (5)
3. Leveraging the Disagreement on Climate Change: Theory and Evidence
   Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Leveraging the Disagreement on Climate Change: Theory and Evidence, Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press (2025) (2025)

2018

4. Climate Shocks and Economic Growth: Bridging the Micro-Macro Gap
   2018 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics View citations (14)
5. Climate Shocks, Cyclones, and Economic Growth: Bridging the Micro-Macro Gap
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (23)
   See also Journal Article Climate Shocks, Cyclones and Economic Growth: Bridging the Micro-Macro Gap, The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (2026) (2026)

2017

6. Flood Risk Belief Heterogeneity and Coastal Home Price Dynamics: Going Under Water?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (56)

Journal Articles

2026

1. Climate Shocks, Cyclones and Economic Growth: Bridging the Micro-Macro Gap
   The Economic Journal, 2026, 136, (673), 279-310
   See also Working Paper Climate Shocks, Cyclones, and Economic Growth: Bridging the Micro-Macro Gap, NBER Working Papers (2018) View citations (23) (2018)

2025

2. Leveraging the Disagreement on Climate Change: Theory and Evidence
   Journal of Political Economy, 2025, 133, (10), 3132 - 3166
   See also Working Paper Leveraging the Disagreement on Climate Change: Theory and Evidence, Working Paper (2023) View citations (2) (2023)

2024

3. Creating Sustainable Flood Maps Using Machine Learning and Free Remote Sensing Data in Unmapped Areas
   Sustainability, 2024, 16, (20), 1-17
4. Cumulative impacts in environmental justice: Insights from economics and policy
   Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2024, 107, (C) View citations (5)

2022

5. A Comprehensive Methodology for Evaluating the Economic Impacts of Floods: An Application to Canada, Mexico, and the United States
   Sustainability, 2022, 14, (21), 1-27
6. Going Underwater? Flood Risk Belief Heterogeneity and Coastal Home Price Dynamics
   The Review of Financial Studies, 2022, 35, (8), 3666-3709 View citations (63)
7. Household Sorting as Adaptation to Hurricane Risk in the United States
   Land Economics, 2022, 98, (2), 219-238 View citations (6)

2020

8. A preference for power: Willingness to pay for energy reliability versus fuel type in Vietnam
   Energy Policy, 2020, 144, (C) View citations (10)
9. Sorting over flood risk and implications for policy reform
   Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2020, 104, (C) View citations (54)

2019

10. Flood Risk and Salience: New Evidence from the Sunshine State
    Southern Economic Journal, 2019, 85, (4), 1132-1158 View citations (18)

2018

11. The Impact of Disaster Data on Estimating Damage Determinants and Climate Costs
    Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, 2018, 2, (1), 49-71 View citations (6)

2017

12. Validating Resilience and Vulnerability Indices in the Context of Natural Disasters
    Risk Analysis, 2017, 37, (5), 982-1004 View citations (42)

2016

13. Did adaptation strategies work? High fatalities from tropical cyclones in the North Indian Ocean and future vulnerability under global warming
    Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2016, 82, (2), 1341-1355 View citations (4)
14. Risk and Adaptation: Evidence from Global Hurricane Damages and Fatalities
    Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2016, 3, (3), 555 - 587 View citations (57)

2012

15. The impact of climate change on global tropical cyclone damage
    Nature Climate Change, 2012, 2, (3), 205-209 View citations (98)

Chapters

2022

1. Risk preferences and natural disasters: a review of theoretical and empirical themes
   Chapter 6 in Handbook on the Economics of Disasters, 2022, pp 86-114
2. The economics of tropical cyclone adaptation
   Chapter 2 in Handbook of Behavioral Economics and Climate Change, 2022, pp 33-62