Encouraging Adaptation to Climate Change: Long Term Flood Insurance

Grist: “Congress Set to Overhaul Disaster Recovery, Speeding Up New Home Builds”

Carlos Martín, RFF’s Vice President for Research and Policy Engagement, comments on new disaster recovery policies.

Managing Unpriced Climate Risks in US Housing Markets

This article reviews evidence that climate-related risks may not be fully captured in US home prices and discusses potential policy approaches aimed at improving accurate pricing and reducing related economic impacts.

Understanding the Barriers to Affordable Homeowners Insurance, with Margaret Walls and Penny Liao

Margaret Walls and Penny Liao break down how extreme weather events threaten homeowners insurance markets; their episode dives deep into case studies of state-level responses in California and Florida.

AI-Assisted Teams Outperform AI-Led Teams but Not Human-Only Teams in Assessing Research Reproducibility in Quantitative Social Science

With Large Language Models (LLMs) becoming widespread, this study tests whether artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT could help social scientists check if published research findings can be reproduced.