Typhoon Shock and State Capacity: Evidence from East Coast Counties in China

• In Event: State Capacity and Government Performance

Brief Overview

Based on a county-level dataset of all coastal typhoon landfalls and surrounding areas in China between 1949 and 2019, this paper constructs a quasi-natural experiment, estimating the political implications of these disasters at subnational level.

Authors

• Renhao Ye, Peking University

• Xingyu Zhou, Peking University

• Jiaqi Chen, Peking University