Replication Data for: Economic Sanctions and Government Spending Adjustments: The Case of Disaster Preparedness

Economic sanctions research suggests that sanctioned countries’ overall economic costs tend to be low. We argue that, despite this, sanction costs can force governments of these countries to reallocate budget resources from low-priority spending categories to others in an effort to minimize governments’ political costs. One such low-priority category is disaster preparedness and mitigation. We show that economic sanctions lead to reduced disaster preparedness spending and, as a result, increase the scale of economic and human losses generated by natural disasters in sanctioned countries.