Environmental change

Hurricanes and Migration: New Evidence from Credit Bureau Microdata

We use credit bureau microdata containing the quarterly locations of 20 million Americans to examine migration responses to 10 hurricanes between 2005 and 2017. We find that flooding from the largest hurricanes caused small increases in migration in …

Unpriced climate risk and the potential consequences of overvaluation in US housing markets

Climate change impacts threaten the stability of the US housing market. In response to growing concerns that increasing costs of flooding are not fully captured in property values, we quantify the magnitude of unpriced flood risk in the housing …

Amphibian collapses increased malaria incidence in Central America

Biodiversity in ecosystems plays an important role in supporting human welfare, including regulating the transmission of infectious diseases. Many of these services are not fully-appreciated due to complex environmental dynamics and lack of baseline …

Exposures and behavioural responses to wildfire smoke

Pollution from wildfires constitutes a growing source of poor air quality globally. To protect health, governments largely rely on citizens to limit their own wildfire smoke exposures, but the effectiveness of this strategy is hard to observe. Using …

Untapped potential: leak reduction is the most cost-effective urban water management tool

Water leaks management as an efficient urban water saving tool.