期刊
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
卷 70, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102329
关键词
Climate change; Inequality; Natural disasters; System of simultaneous equations
资金
- Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR) , Scientific Research Program of National Relevance PRIN2017 project Innovation for global challenges in a connected world
- Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad 'Programa Estatal de I+D+i Orientada a los Retos de la Q2 Sociedad [ECO2017-86976-R]
Through empirical analysis of data from 149 countries, it was found that inequality increases the number of people affected by natural disasters, leading to a vicious cycle of disasters and inequality in some countries.
The purpose of the present paper is to disentangle the mechanisms that connect climate change-induced disasters, inequality and vulnerability by accounting for both directions of causality. We do so by means of a simultaneous equations approach on a panel of 149 countries from 1992 to 2018. The empirical analysis reveals that countries with higher levels of income inequality suffer greater damages when hit by a natural disaster. At the same time, inequality is found to increase the number of people affected by disasters. Our analysis discloses the existence of a vicious cycle that keeps some countries stuck in a disasters-inequality trap.
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