Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283431 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 19-2023
Publisher: 
Philipps-University Marburg, School of Business and Economics, Marburg
Abstract: 
The literature regarding the effects of environmental hazards on social preferences is mixed and partially contradictory. The lack of a baseline in these studies is a severe methodological constraint, as it is hard to identify heterogeneous treatment effects through experience in the recovery process. We exploit a panel of incentivized behavioral measures of solidarity conducted before and after the devastating damages caused by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. We find that Haiyan's impact on individuals' degree of solidarity was non-linear: solidarity was negatively affected in villages with medium damages, whereas no significant impact was observed in those villages that were most and least affected. A potential explanation for this non-linear effect is differences in people's experiences concerning the aid process and help from other villagers. In villages with medium damages, the quality of the aid process and help from other villagers was perceived to be significantly worse than that received by more and less affected villages. Lastly, survey evidence shows that the non-linear effects persist almost 10 years after the disaster.
Subjects: 
Social preferences
environmental hazard
natural experiment
social dynamics
Typhoon Haiyan
Philippines
JEL: 
Q54
C93
D91
O12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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