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CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 43
January 2010
The Impact of Natural Disasters on Human Development and Poverty at the Municipal Level in Mexico
Eduardo Rodriguez-Oreggia
Abstract
This paper seeks to analyze the impact of natural hazards on human development and poverty at the municipal level in Mexico. We control for a set of geographical and natural location characteristics which make municipalities more prone to the occurrence of these events. We also employ a set of institutional, economic and demographic characteristics to control for baseline heterogeneity. Using an adjusted difference-in-difference regression with data for 2000 and 2005, results show a significant decrease of social indicators for general events, and especially for flood and droughts.
Keywords: natural disasters, impact, poverty, human development, geography
JEL codes: C52, I31, O10, O54, Q54
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