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Who gets hit first and who recovers last? Evidence from Indian Coastal Flood Shock
Jheelum Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08856 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Who gets hit first and who recovers last? Evidence from Indian Coastal Flood Shock
Catastrophic floods directly risk 1.8 billion lives worldwide, most of whom are from East and South Asia. How do extreme floods reshape paid labor outcomes? To answer this, I focus on a 1-in-100 year flood event in India. I first combine Sentinel-1 SAR with JRC Global Surface Water dataset to generate flood map. Using information from this map in various rounds of periodic labor force surveys, I estimate gender-specific dynamic effects of the flood shock. Key results show that men experienced s…