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.

现有经济制裁领域的研究表明，受制裁国家的整体经济成本往往偏低。尽管如此，我们认为制裁成本仍会迫使受制裁国政府将预算资源从低优先级支出领域重新分配至其他领域，以尽可能降低政府的政治成本。灾害备灾与减灾便属于此类低优先级支出领域之一。我们的研究证实，经济制裁会导致灾害备灾支出削减，进而推高受制裁国因自然灾害产生的经济与人员损失规模。