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Session

Thematic Session: Media, Policy Issues, and Efficacy Amid Floods (Streaming)
Location: B134
Session Chair: Maria L. Loureiro, Univgersity Santiago de Compostela
Session Chair: Valerie Mueller, Arizona State University

Presentation 5

Same flood, different story: heterogeneous effects of natural disasters among people at risk

Hernan Bejarano¹, Lorena Heller², Rodrigo Lopez Ergueta², Soraya Adiva Roman Eyzaguirre³

1: Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE-Mexico), Economic Science Insitute (ESI), Chapman University; 2: LABEX, Universidad Privada Boliviana; 3: Universidade Católica de Brasília, FGV

What effects natural disasters have on individual preferences is still an open question. Although some studies show that large natural disasters increase individual impatience and risk aversion (Tanaka et al. 2016; Cassar et al. 2017), other studies show that frequent exposure to smaller disasters, such as floods, can lead people to become more tolerant of losses (Cheong . We study the effects of living in a flood area frequently exposed to shocks and having a native mother tongue on attitudes toward risk, losses, and ambiguity. To do so, several traditional tasks in experimental economics were used to capture the individual attitudes of 676 residents of a riverside area of a large metropolitan area of Bolivia. Bolivia is considered one of the most vulnerable countries to natural disasters (The World Bank 2017). Our findings indicate that those with a native mother tongue living in flood-prone areas are more tolerant of risk, regardless of the decision framing (gain, loss, or ambiguity). Thus, the results of this study highlight the multidimensional and complex relationships of those communities exposed to natural disasters.