Arbeitspapier

What explains the disaster preparedness of micro-enterprises? Examining socio-psychological characteristics and information provision

Worldwide, enterprises are hit by disasters such as cyclones and floods. Despite being impacted negatively, most enterprises do not prepare for future disasters. This study aims at understanding the determinants of enterprises' disaster preparedness. It first examines whether specific socio-psychological characteristics of entrepreneurs are associated with their enterprises' disaster preparedness. The second step includes an experiment providing enterprises with information about six specific and easy-to-implement measures of disaster preparedness. This experiment aims to understand if better information increases entrepreneurs' attitudes towards, and de facto, disaster preparedness. For this purpose, we use a panel dataset of mostly informal Mozambican micro-enterprises from 2022 and run standard fixed effects regressions and randomized controlled trial impact evaluations. First, we find that knowledge about climate change, descriptive norms, and egoistic values are associated with the disaster preparedness of enterprises. Second, providing information about disaster preparedness measures neither changes attitudes towards nor de facto disaster preparedness.

Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-92-9267-460-1

Erschienen in
Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2024/2

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡
Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
Thema
disaster preparedness
firms
informality
information
cyclone

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Berkel, Hanna
Tarp, Finn
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2024

DOI
doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2024/460-1
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Berkel, Hanna
  • Tarp, Finn
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Entstanden

  • 2024

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