Voter Response to Natural Disaster Aid : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Drought Relief Payments in Mexico

Voter Response to Natural Disaster Aid : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Drought Relief Payments in Mexico

The paper estimates the effects on presidential election returns in Mexico of a government climatic contingency transfer that is allocated through rainfall-indexed insurance. The analysis uses the discontinuity in payments that slightly deviate fro...

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Main Authors: Fuchs, Alan, Rodriguez-Chamussy, Lourdes
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
AGRICULTURAL LAND
ALTITUDE
BASIC
CASH TRANSFERS
CODES
DAMAGES
DISASTER AID
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
DISASTER RELIEF
DROUGHT
DROUGHTS
EMERGENCY RELIEF
FARMER
FARMERS
FLOODING
HUMIDITY
HURRICANE
INCOME
INCOME FLUCTUATIONS
INDEMNITIES
INDEMNITY
INSURANCE
INSURANCE PREMIUM
INSURER
MEDIA
MONSOON
NATURAL CATASTROPHES
NATURAL DISASTER
NATURAL DISASTERS
PERSONAL COMPUTERS
POLITICAL ECONOMY
POLITICAL SUPPORT
POOR
POOR RURAL HOUSEHOLDS
POVERTY REDUCTION
RAIN
RAINFALL
RAINFALL MEASUREMENT
RECONSTRUCTION
REINSURERS
RELIEF
RELIEF EFFORTS
RESPONSE TO DISASTER
RISK MANAGEMENT
RURAL
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
RURAL HOUSEHOLDS
RURAL LIVELIHOODS
SOCIAL PROGRAMS
TARGETING
TEMPERATURE
WEATHER
WEATHER STATIONS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/04/19354983/voter-response-natural-disaster-aid-quasi-experimental-evidence-drought-relief-payments-mexico
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17723

Internet

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/04/19354983/voter-response-natural-disaster-aid-quasi-experimental-evidence-drought-relief-payments-mexico
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17723

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