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DESCRIPTION:Matthew Gordon (Paris School of  Economics)\, “Targeting Disast
 er Aid: A Structural Evaluation of a Large Earthquake Reconstruction Progr
 am”\, Environmental Economics Seminar\, Toulouse: TSE\, April 28\, 2025\, 
 11:00–12:15\, room Auditorium 4.\n\nThis paper studies the question of how
  to target aid after a natural disaster.\nDisaster aid programs often use 
 property damage as a criterion for eligibility. A\nhousehold’s ability to 
 insure against shocks may be harder to observe but more\nimportant in dete
 rmining how the disaster affects welfare. We develop a model of\nhousehold
  demand for reconstruction aid and estimate the model parameters using\nda
 ta from a household survey following the 2015 Nepal earthquake and moments
 \nderived from a spatial regression discontinuity design. We use the model
 \nto estimate welfare from counterfactual targeting strategies. Conditioni
 ng aid on\nproperty damages increases welfare by 6% relative to a random a
 llocation\, but a\ngeographically targeted aid strategy based on earthquak
 e intensity would have increased\nwelfare by more.We also show that policy
 makers face trade-offs between\ntargeting strategies aimed at consumption 
 smoothing and those prioritizing poor\nhouseholds. Notably\, damage-based 
 targeting proves ineffective in reaching poor\nhouseholds.
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LOCATION:Toulouse: TSE\, April 28\, 2025\, 11:00–12:15\, room Auditorium 4
SUMMARY:Environmental Economics Seminar
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.tse-fr.eu/seminars/2025-targeting-disaster-aid-str
 uctural-evaluation-large-earthquake-reconstruction-program
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