Microeconomic Impacts of Australian Natural Disasters

Funding: 2017: $6,500
2017: $264
2018: $3,118
2019: $3,118

Project Member(s): Siminski, P.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)
Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)

Start year: 2017

Summary: Microeconomic effects of Australian natural disasters. This project aims to describe and identify the effects of Australian natural disasters – such as the Black Saturday bushfires and the Brisbane floods – on important microeconomic outcomes, including health, education and employment. Natural disasters have profound economic and social effects on individuals and communities. This project intends to bring evidence on how disasters affect individuals and how the effects can be lessened. The project expects to inform policy-makers on these critical issues by analysing field, survey and administrative data on individuals before and after past disasters.

FOR Codes: Health Economics, Labour Economics, Human Capital Issues, Health Protection and/or Disaster Response, Health economics , Labour economics , Health protection and disaster response

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