Originally posted on the Haas Energy Institute’s blog, Susanna Berkouwer writes about how Ghanaians were promised heavily subsidized electricity for the first three months of the pandemic. What happened?…Read More
Besides immediate property damages, wildfires can bring about longer-term impacts. For many local governments, a nearby wildfire can take a heavy toll on their fiscal health.…Read More
While the number of US wildfires per year remains fairly constant, the total acreage burned and average fire size has increased over the last thirty years.Without insurance, many individuals in wildfire-prone areas likely have insufficient resources to recover from these devastating events.…Read More
While there are a number of non-behavioral factors that affect households’ decision to purchase flood insurance, such as ability-to-pay and lack of information about risk or insurance, behavioral biases likely play a large role.…Read More
Extreme wildfires have raised broad concerns about the future of wildfire risk management programs. This opinion piece highlights the need for homeowners and communities to invest in cost-effective mitigation measures.…Read More
In this post, Alexander Braun, a Senior Fellow at the Risk Center, with his colleague, Nikals Haeusle, discuss the role of block chain in insurance. …Read More
“How complicated can it be?” you might ask. Great question. Reese May from SBP discusses the process survivors must navigate to receive basic recovery grants from FEMA. …Read More
As part of a larger agenda that aims to increase hurricane mitigation through targeted persuasive messaging, we conducted two formative research studies in the hurricane at-risk states of Alabama and Florida.…Read More
In the second part of this two-part series, we offer the final two insights from the recent release of NFIP microdata. This data has enabled a closer look at the NFIP program, providing an overview of flood risk in the United States and the challenges of flood risk management.…Read More
At the beginning of last summer, FEMA released a wealth of historical data on flood insurance in the United States. The recent release of NFIP microdata has enabled a closer look at this program, providing an overview of flood risk in the United States and the challenges of flood risk management. …Read More
