The unemployment impact of the 1993 US midwest flood: A quasi-experimental structural break point analysis

Environmental Hazards

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 93-113

  Xiao, Yu ^a   Feser, Edward ^b,c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

economic impact; natural disasters; quasi experimental control group research designs; structural break point methods; time series methods

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; FLOOD; LABOR MARKET; NATURAL DISASTER; UNEMPLOYMENT;

MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896943247     PISSN: 17477891     EISSN: 18780059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2013.777892     Document Type: Article

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