Natural disaster insurance doesn't make people riskier, but could be improved.
Moral hazard in natural disaster insurance markets can lead to people taking less precautions, but this study found that it's not a big issue in Germany and the United States. The researchers looked at how people's actions to reduce disaster risk relate to their insurance coverage. They found that moral hazard wasn't a problem, but there might be some issues with selecting who gets insurance. This suggests that there could be ways to make insurance more connected to reducing disaster risks.