When and how do natural disasters worsen within-country income inequality? We highlight the channels through which natural disasters may have distributional effects and empirically analyze when and ...

Climate change is causing more frequent and devastating natural disasters. The goal of this paper is two-fold. First, it examines the dynamic effects of natural disasters on the growth of output and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Christian Weller is an economist focused on retirement inequality. The burden of climate change and the associated natural ...