Yu Xiao
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- School: Texas A&M University
- Campus: College Station
- Department: Architecture
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College Station, TX - Dates at Texas A&M University: April 2017 - April 2017
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Biography
Texas A&M University College Station - Architecture
Associate Professor at Portland State University
Higher Education
Yu
Xiao
College Station, Texas
I do research on local and economic development, economic resiliency, and disaster management and recovery. Check out my publications on ResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yu_Xiao14
Experience
Portland State University
Associate Professor
Yu worked at Portland State University as a Associate Professor
Texas A&M University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Associate Professor
Yu worked at Texas A&M University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning as a Associate Professor
Texas A&M University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Assistant Professor
Yu worked at Texas A&M University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning as a Assistant Professor
International Association for China Planning
Member of the Board of Directors
http://www.chinaplanning.org/
Land-use Evolution and Impact Assessment Model
Research Assistant
Yu worked at Land-use Evolution and Impact Assessment Model as a Research Assistant
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MUP
Urban Planning
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D.
Urban and Regional Planning
Peking University
BS
Urban studies and environmental sciences
Publications
The Unemployment Impact of the 1993 Midwest Flood: A Quasi-Experimental Structural Break Point Analysis
Environmental Hazards
Most studies of the labor market impact of natural disasters report findings drawn from the observation of one or a few geographic areas. In this study, we provide large-sample evidence of the unemployment impact of disasters based on an empirical assessment of 320 counties affected by the 1993 Midwest flood, the costliest flood in the US history. We undertake a disaster economic impact analysis that combines quasi-experimental comparison group methods with econometric structural break point techniques. The combination of research designs offers advantages over the implementation of either impact evaluation design alone. We find that the flood caused unemployment rates to spike in heavily damaged counties but that the effects dissipated quickly. Unemployment rates dropped to below pre-flood levels shortly after the floodwaters receded. Temporary unemployment rate impacts in lightly damaged counties are detectable but were modest. Our findings are consistent with other macroeconomic studies which suggest that natural disasters in the United States have few persistent long-term negative effects on the economic trajectories of affected counties.
The Unemployment Impact of the 1993 Midwest Flood: A Quasi-Experimental Structural Break Point Analysis
Environmental Hazards
Most studies of the labor market impact of natural disasters report findings drawn from the observation of one or a few geographic areas. In this study, we provide large-sample evidence of the unemployment impact of disasters based on an empirical assessment of 320 counties affected by the 1993 Midwest flood, the costliest flood in the US history. We undertake a disaster economic impact analysis that combines quasi-experimental comparison group methods with econometric structural break point techniques. The combination of research designs offers advantages over the implementation of either impact evaluation design alone. We find that the flood caused unemployment rates to spike in heavily damaged counties but that the effects dissipated quickly. Unemployment rates dropped to below pre-flood levels shortly after the floodwaters receded. Temporary unemployment rate impacts in lightly damaged counties are detectable but were modest. Our findings are consistent with other macroeconomic studies which suggest that natural disasters in the United States have few persistent long-term negative effects on the economic trajectories of affected counties.
Building Community Resiliency: Spatial Links between Households and Businesses in Post-Disaster Recovery
Urban Studies
Rapidly urbanising areas along the world’s coasts are exposing greater numbers of households to more frequent and severe natural and man-made disasters. Knowledge gained from disaster situations can provide insight into larger urban forces and play a role in developing and prescribing policies that influence the creation of more resilient communities. This article explores the interdependency of households and businesses in post-disaster return following 2008’s Hurricane Ike in Galveston, Texas. Geocoded data from 980 households and 145 businesses collected in the months after the storm allow the spatial correlation of the household occupancy and business operation, controlling for damage. Findings suggest that the return of households and businesses are mutually dependent across space. The reopening of businesses can influence nearby households’ decisions to return to their homes and the return of households in the market area will increase the chances for businesses to return.
The Unemployment Impact of the 1993 Midwest Flood: A Quasi-Experimental Structural Break Point Analysis
Environmental Hazards
Most studies of the labor market impact of natural disasters report findings drawn from the observation of one or a few geographic areas. In this study, we provide large-sample evidence of the unemployment impact of disasters based on an empirical assessment of 320 counties affected by the 1993 Midwest flood, the costliest flood in the US history. We undertake a disaster economic impact analysis that combines quasi-experimental comparison group methods with econometric structural break point techniques. The combination of research designs offers advantages over the implementation of either impact evaluation design alone. We find that the flood caused unemployment rates to spike in heavily damaged counties but that the effects dissipated quickly. Unemployment rates dropped to below pre-flood levels shortly after the floodwaters receded. Temporary unemployment rate impacts in lightly damaged counties are detectable but were modest. Our findings are consistent with other macroeconomic studies which suggest that natural disasters in the United States have few persistent long-term negative effects on the economic trajectories of affected counties.
Building Community Resiliency: Spatial Links between Households and Businesses in Post-Disaster Recovery
Urban Studies
Rapidly urbanising areas along the world’s coasts are exposing greater numbers of households to more frequent and severe natural and man-made disasters. Knowledge gained from disaster situations can provide insight into larger urban forces and play a role in developing and prescribing policies that influence the creation of more resilient communities. This article explores the interdependency of households and businesses in post-disaster return following 2008’s Hurricane Ike in Galveston, Texas. Geocoded data from 980 households and 145 businesses collected in the months after the storm allow the spatial correlation of the household occupancy and business operation, controlling for damage. Findings suggest that the return of households and businesses are mutually dependent across space. The reopening of businesses can influence nearby households’ decisions to return to their homes and the return of households in the market area will increase the chances for businesses to return.
Do Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness Reduce Physical Damage to Businesses in Disasters: The Critical Role of Business Disaster Planning
Natural Hazards Review
This paper provides fresh evidence on the status of business disaster planning, mitigation, and preparedness, and the effectiveness of these activities for loss reduction. We analyzed data from a survey of businesses in Galveston County, Texas conducted seven month after Hurricane Ike struck the area in September 2008. Different from previous studies, we found that disaster planning by businesses significantly promoted the adoption and implementation of hazard mitigation and preparedness actions, and most importantly, disaster planning and the adoption of mitigation and preparedness measures significantly reduced physical damage to businesses.
The Unemployment Impact of the 1993 Midwest Flood: A Quasi-Experimental Structural Break Point Analysis
Environmental Hazards
Most studies of the labor market impact of natural disasters report findings drawn from the observation of one or a few geographic areas. In this study, we provide large-sample evidence of the unemployment impact of disasters based on an empirical assessment of 320 counties affected by the 1993 Midwest flood, the costliest flood in the US history. We undertake a disaster economic impact analysis that combines quasi-experimental comparison group methods with econometric structural break point techniques. The combination of research designs offers advantages over the implementation of either impact evaluation design alone. We find that the flood caused unemployment rates to spike in heavily damaged counties but that the effects dissipated quickly. Unemployment rates dropped to below pre-flood levels shortly after the floodwaters receded. Temporary unemployment rate impacts in lightly damaged counties are detectable but were modest. Our findings are consistent with other macroeconomic studies which suggest that natural disasters in the United States have few persistent long-term negative effects on the economic trajectories of affected counties.
Building Community Resiliency: Spatial Links between Households and Businesses in Post-Disaster Recovery
Urban Studies
Rapidly urbanising areas along the world’s coasts are exposing greater numbers of households to more frequent and severe natural and man-made disasters. Knowledge gained from disaster situations can provide insight into larger urban forces and play a role in developing and prescribing policies that influence the creation of more resilient communities. This article explores the interdependency of households and businesses in post-disaster return following 2008’s Hurricane Ike in Galveston, Texas. Geocoded data from 980 households and 145 businesses collected in the months after the storm allow the spatial correlation of the household occupancy and business operation, controlling for damage. Findings suggest that the return of households and businesses are mutually dependent across space. The reopening of businesses can influence nearby households’ decisions to return to their homes and the return of households in the market area will increase the chances for businesses to return.
Do Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness Reduce Physical Damage to Businesses in Disasters: The Critical Role of Business Disaster Planning
Natural Hazards Review
This paper provides fresh evidence on the status of business disaster planning, mitigation, and preparedness, and the effectiveness of these activities for loss reduction. We analyzed data from a survey of businesses in Galveston County, Texas conducted seven month after Hurricane Ike struck the area in September 2008. Different from previous studies, we found that disaster planning by businesses significantly promoted the adoption and implementation of hazard mitigation and preparedness actions, and most importantly, disaster planning and the adoption of mitigation and preparedness measures significantly reduced physical damage to businesses.
Local Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters
Journal of Regional Science
This research uses time-series analysis under a quasi-experimental pair-wise matching design to examine local economic impacts of the 1993 Midwest flood. The data support the concept of overall local economic resiliency to natural disasters. The flood’s impacts on total employment were minimal. Although significant drops in personal income were observed in the year of the event, the long-run effects seemed to be negligible. This study also finds that the flood’s negative impacts on agriculture were significant and long lasting to some Midwestern communities. The findings are quite stable with respect to the number of controls selected for each treated unit.
The Unemployment Impact of the 1993 Midwest Flood: A Quasi-Experimental Structural Break Point Analysis
Environmental Hazards
Most studies of the labor market impact of natural disasters report findings drawn from the observation of one or a few geographic areas. In this study, we provide large-sample evidence of the unemployment impact of disasters based on an empirical assessment of 320 counties affected by the 1993 Midwest flood, the costliest flood in the US history. We undertake a disaster economic impact analysis that combines quasi-experimental comparison group methods with econometric structural break point techniques. The combination of research designs offers advantages over the implementation of either impact evaluation design alone. We find that the flood caused unemployment rates to spike in heavily damaged counties but that the effects dissipated quickly. Unemployment rates dropped to below pre-flood levels shortly after the floodwaters receded. Temporary unemployment rate impacts in lightly damaged counties are detectable but were modest. Our findings are consistent with other macroeconomic studies which suggest that natural disasters in the United States have few persistent long-term negative effects on the economic trajectories of affected counties.
Building Community Resiliency: Spatial Links between Households and Businesses in Post-Disaster Recovery
Urban Studies
Rapidly urbanising areas along the world’s coasts are exposing greater numbers of households to more frequent and severe natural and man-made disasters. Knowledge gained from disaster situations can provide insight into larger urban forces and play a role in developing and prescribing policies that influence the creation of more resilient communities. This article explores the interdependency of households and businesses in post-disaster return following 2008’s Hurricane Ike in Galveston, Texas. Geocoded data from 980 households and 145 businesses collected in the months after the storm allow the spatial correlation of the household occupancy and business operation, controlling for damage. Findings suggest that the return of households and businesses are mutually dependent across space. The reopening of businesses can influence nearby households’ decisions to return to their homes and the return of households in the market area will increase the chances for businesses to return.
Do Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness Reduce Physical Damage to Businesses in Disasters: The Critical Role of Business Disaster Planning
Natural Hazards Review
This paper provides fresh evidence on the status of business disaster planning, mitigation, and preparedness, and the effectiveness of these activities for loss reduction. We analyzed data from a survey of businesses in Galveston County, Texas conducted seven month after Hurricane Ike struck the area in September 2008. Different from previous studies, we found that disaster planning by businesses significantly promoted the adoption and implementation of hazard mitigation and preparedness actions, and most importantly, disaster planning and the adoption of mitigation and preparedness measures significantly reduced physical damage to businesses.
Local Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters
Journal of Regional Science
This research uses time-series analysis under a quasi-experimental pair-wise matching design to examine local economic impacts of the 1993 Midwest flood. The data support the concept of overall local economic resiliency to natural disasters. The flood’s impacts on total employment were minimal. Although significant drops in personal income were observed in the year of the event, the long-run effects seemed to be negligible. This study also finds that the flood’s negative impacts on agriculture were significant and long lasting to some Midwestern communities. The findings are quite stable with respect to the number of controls selected for each treated unit.
Does Industrial Diversification Enhance Local Economic Disaster Resilience?
Journal of American Planning Association
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Little research examines the effect of diversity on regional economic resilience to natural disasters. We examine whether economic diversity benefits regional economies in typical circumstances and in recovery after a natural disaster, using the case of the 1993 U.S. Midwest flood. By matching counties in the nine states affected by the flood to control counties, we isolate the influence of diversity on employment and income in normal circumstances and after a substantial shock. We found economic diversity to have mixed associations with employment and income in typical circumstances. On average, economically diverse counties tended to experience faster employment gains but slower growth in per capita income than less diverse areas. The effect of economic diversity upon resilience following a natural disaster was unambiguous. Economic diversity aided counties in weathering the downturn following the flood and sped their return to long-term patterns of employment and income growth. Takeaway for practice: In promoting policies to enhance economic diversity, planners in communities located in areas prone to natural disasters should consider both the goal of disaster resilience and the potential tradeoffs between different aspects of economic performance.
The Unemployment Impact of the 1993 Midwest Flood: A Quasi-Experimental Structural Break Point Analysis
Environmental Hazards
Most studies of the labor market impact of natural disasters report findings drawn from the observation of one or a few geographic areas. In this study, we provide large-sample evidence of the unemployment impact of disasters based on an empirical assessment of 320 counties affected by the 1993 Midwest flood, the costliest flood in the US history. We undertake a disaster economic impact analysis that combines quasi-experimental comparison group methods with econometric structural break point techniques. The combination of research designs offers advantages over the implementation of either impact evaluation design alone. We find that the flood caused unemployment rates to spike in heavily damaged counties but that the effects dissipated quickly. Unemployment rates dropped to below pre-flood levels shortly after the floodwaters receded. Temporary unemployment rate impacts in lightly damaged counties are detectable but were modest. Our findings are consistent with other macroeconomic studies which suggest that natural disasters in the United States have few persistent long-term negative effects on the economic trajectories of affected counties.
Building Community Resiliency: Spatial Links between Households and Businesses in Post-Disaster Recovery
Urban Studies
Rapidly urbanising areas along the world’s coasts are exposing greater numbers of households to more frequent and severe natural and man-made disasters. Knowledge gained from disaster situations can provide insight into larger urban forces and play a role in developing and prescribing policies that influence the creation of more resilient communities. This article explores the interdependency of households and businesses in post-disaster return following 2008’s Hurricane Ike in Galveston, Texas. Geocoded data from 980 households and 145 businesses collected in the months after the storm allow the spatial correlation of the household occupancy and business operation, controlling for damage. Findings suggest that the return of households and businesses are mutually dependent across space. The reopening of businesses can influence nearby households’ decisions to return to their homes and the return of households in the market area will increase the chances for businesses to return.
Do Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness Reduce Physical Damage to Businesses in Disasters: The Critical Role of Business Disaster Planning
Natural Hazards Review
This paper provides fresh evidence on the status of business disaster planning, mitigation, and preparedness, and the effectiveness of these activities for loss reduction. We analyzed data from a survey of businesses in Galveston County, Texas conducted seven month after Hurricane Ike struck the area in September 2008. Different from previous studies, we found that disaster planning by businesses significantly promoted the adoption and implementation of hazard mitigation and preparedness actions, and most importantly, disaster planning and the adoption of mitigation and preparedness measures significantly reduced physical damage to businesses.
Local Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters
Journal of Regional Science
This research uses time-series analysis under a quasi-experimental pair-wise matching design to examine local economic impacts of the 1993 Midwest flood. The data support the concept of overall local economic resiliency to natural disasters. The flood’s impacts on total employment were minimal. Although significant drops in personal income were observed in the year of the event, the long-run effects seemed to be negligible. This study also finds that the flood’s negative impacts on agriculture were significant and long lasting to some Midwestern communities. The findings are quite stable with respect to the number of controls selected for each treated unit.
Does Industrial Diversification Enhance Local Economic Disaster Resilience?
Journal of American Planning Association
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Little research examines the effect of diversity on regional economic resilience to natural disasters. We examine whether economic diversity benefits regional economies in typical circumstances and in recovery after a natural disaster, using the case of the 1993 U.S. Midwest flood. By matching counties in the nine states affected by the flood to control counties, we isolate the influence of diversity on employment and income in normal circumstances and after a substantial shock. We found economic diversity to have mixed associations with employment and income in typical circumstances. On average, economically diverse counties tended to experience faster employment gains but slower growth in per capita income than less diverse areas. The effect of economic diversity upon resilience following a natural disaster was unambiguous. Economic diversity aided counties in weathering the downturn following the flood and sped their return to long-term patterns of employment and income growth. Takeaway for practice: In promoting policies to enhance economic diversity, planners in communities located in areas prone to natural disasters should consider both the goal of disaster resilience and the potential tradeoffs between different aspects of economic performance.
Winners and Losers in Space: Analyzing Spatial Demand Shift after Natural Disasters
Disasters
Disasters produce winners and losers. This paper evaluates such winners and losers in a spatial context. The hypothesis is that, because of severe damage to the core disaster area and the constraints associated with the cost of transportation, economic demand would shift to the immediate edge of the disaster zone where either minor or no damage is observed. Empirical analysis of growth patterns in counties/parishes in the states of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi in the United States after Hurricane Katrina (August 2005) verified the spatial demand shift hypothesis. The study found that the post-Katrina core disaster area became a ‘doughnut hole’ of low income and employment growth, surrounded by a ring of high growth counties/parishes on the edge of the hole. The short-run adjustment in growth rates may have altered permanently the spatial distribution of employment and income both at the core and in the areas at the edge.
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