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Episode 13: Hurricanes and the City -- with Rhiannon Jerch
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Local governments are essential providers of public goods and services utilized by Americans every day. Extreme weather events can threaten the stability of local revenue sources and the ability of municipalities to provide essential goods and services. Rhiannon Jerch talks about her research with Matthew E. Kahn & Gary Lin in which they study what happens to local public finances in the aftermath of hurricanes in the United States.
Paper:
"Local Public Finance Dynamics and Hurricane Shocks" by Rhiannon Jerch, Matthew E. Kahn & Gary C. Lin
https://rhiannonjerch.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/jerch_kahn_lin_abstract_27oct.pdf
Recommendation:
"Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History" (2000) by Erik Larson
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239186.Isaac_s_Storm
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