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NATURAL DISASTERS AND INDIVIDUAL ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: A CASE STUDY FROM THE SLAVE LAKE WILDFIRE

Philippe Kabore et al.

Climate Change Economics2025https://doi.org/10.1142/s2010007825500125article
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In May 2011, the municipality of Slave Lake, Alberta, was hit by a devastating wildfire; the second costliest natural disaster in Canada at the time. Residents of Slave Lake were forced to evacuate for at least a month. This case study uses longitudinal income tax data from 2004 to 2018 to estimate the short, medium, and long-term individual economic effects of this wildfire. Estimates suggest an average drop in total income of 10.5% relative to a counter-factual scenario with no wildfire over the 7 years following the wildfire, mainly driven by a decrease in employment income. The percentage of total income lost is similar for males and females. The largest effects are found for workers in the agriculture and forestry sectors. Back-of-the- envelope calculations suggest an aggregate loss in employment income of $150 million in the 7 years following the disaster, equivalent to over 13% of direct economic losses due to property damage, firefighting, and contemporaneous business closure.

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@article{philippe2025,
  title        = {{NATURAL DISASTERS AND INDIVIDUAL ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: A CASE STUDY FROM THE SLAVE LAKE WILDFIRE}},
  author       = {Philippe Kabore et al.},
  journal      = {Climate Change Economics},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1142/s2010007825500125},
}

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