eprintid: 23029
rev_number: 13
eprint_status: archive
userid: 3114
dir: disk0/00/02/30/29
datestamp: 2017-06-07 08:53:13
lastmod: 2017-06-14 09:15:50
status_changed: 2017-06-07 08:53:13
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Goeschl, Timo
creators_name: Managi, Shunsuke
title: Public in-kind relief and private self-insurance
subjects: ddc-330
divisions: i-181000
abstract: In the wake of several high-profile natural disasters, crowding effects between public relief and private investments in disaster preparedness have recently attracted renewed attention. We examine how non-hypothetical self-insurance behavior by households responds to variations in public investments in relief capabilities based on a large disaster preparedness survey (n = 19,071) conducted in Japan in 2012. The preparedness measure used is emergency drinking water storage, defining a setting in which (i) government provides in-kind, rather than cash, relief and (ii) the crowding effect observed is more apt to be total, rather than partial. In contrast to much of the literature studying crowding effects of cash relief, there is little evidence for crowding out in emergency drinking water, with an upper bound of 2 percent at the intensive margin.
date: 2017-06
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00023029
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0633
ppn_swb: 890703124
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-230297
language: eng
bibsort: GOESCHLTIMPUBLICINKI201706
full_text_status: public
series: Discussion Paper Series, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
volume: 0633
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
citation:   Goeschl, Timo ; Managi, Shunsuke  (2017) Public in-kind relief and private self-insurance.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/23029/1/__ad.uni-heidelberg.de_wiso_u.arnold_Desktop_633%2C%20June%202017.pdf