Working Paper

Extreme Wildfires, Distant Air Pollution, and Household Financial Health

Xudong (Sean) An,
Stuart A. Gabriel &
Nitzan Tzur-Ilan

January 2024

WP 24-01 (Superseded by WP 26-02)

This paper was superseded by Working Paper 26-02 – The Effects of Wildfire and Distant Air Pollution on Household Financial Well-Being.

California Wildfires, Property Damage, and Mortgage Repayment

Revised: November 2023

WP 23-05/R – This paper examines wildfires’ impact on mortgage repayment using novel data that combines property-level damages and mortgage performance data.

Regional Economics

Working Paper

Who Bears Climate-Related Physical Risk?

Natee Amornsiripanitch &
David Wylie

November 2023

WP 23-29 – This paper combines data on current and future property-level physical risk from major climate-related perils (storms, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires) that owner-occupied single-family residences face with data on local economic characteristics to study the geographic and demographic distribution of such risks in the contiguous United States.

Consumer Finance

Discussion Paper

Climate Change and Consumer Finance: A Very Brief Literature Review

October 2021

Extant research shows that climate change can impose significant costs on consumers’ wealth and finances.