Essays on the Economics of Environmental and Health Risk

Individuals face many types of risk, including to their property, finances, and health. In this thesis, I study a variety of strategies for mitigating those risks, in the context of health shocks and natural disasters. In the health context, risk of disease onset is mitigated in some cases with scre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ostriker, Abigail J.H.
Other Authors: Finkelstein, Amy
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151337