| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24120 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24120 |
| The Affordability Goal and Prices in the National Flood Insurance Program | |
| Matthew E. Kahn; V. Kerry Smith | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-12-25 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The United States Gulf Region features areas that face significant flood risk. Climate change may further elevate this risk. Home owners in such areas face potentially large asset losses and property maintenance costs. Anticipating these challenges, the Federal government has enacted a complex set of policies through its National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The NFIP offers reduced insurance rates for homes built before rate maps were drawn and grandfathers rates for homes when new maps increase their risk ratings. This paper asks if the goal of affordable NFIP insurance rates for the high risk Gulf Coast areas is warranted? We compare the income distribution of the set of people who live in the areas that face the highest risk of flooding relative to nearby areas. Our findings imply reduced rates for high risk areas cannot be justified based on the assumption that low income households live in these areas. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Market Structure and Distribution ; Public Economics ; Taxation ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24120 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581808 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Matthew E. Kahn,V. Kerry Smith. The Affordability Goal and Prices in the National Flood Insurance Program. 2017. |
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| w24120.pdf（275KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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