Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Understanding how households adapt to hurricanes is increasingly important as these events become more frequent and severe. This paper examines how past hurricane exposure influences current household preparedness, focusing specifically on the stockpiling of bottled water. Leveraging scanner data on bottled water purchases for households in the Southeastern United States, we employ a difference-in-differences event study framework to analyze how repeated hurricane experiences affect consumer behavior. Our results indicate that households exposed to hurricane warnings do not increase their preparedness in the subsequent hurricane season, and those experiencing a landfall event underprepare. These results suggest limited learning from past events.
Institution: Pennsylvania State University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,660
Awards: A MULTI-MODEL, MULTI-SCALE RESEARCH PROGRAM IN STRESSORS, REPONSES, AND COUPLED SYSTEMS DYNAMICS AT THE ENERGY-WATER-LAND NEXUS, UNDERSTANDING MULTISTRESSOR AND MULTISCALE DRIVERS OF FEEDBACKS, CASCADING FAILURES, AND RISK MANAGEMENT PATHWAYSWITHIN COMPLEX MSD SYSTEMS, G4476110754, G5830627093, A MULTI-MODEL, MULTI-SCALE RESEARCH PROGRAM IN STRESSORS, REPONSES, AND COUPLED SYSTEMS DYNAMICS AT THE ENERGY-WATER-LAND NEXUS, UNDERSTANDING MULTISTRESSOR AND MULTISCALE DRIVERS OF FEEDBACKS, CASCADING FAILURES, AND RISK MANAGEMENT PATHWAYSWITHIN COMPLEX MSD SYSTEMS
OpenAlex ID: W4415566041