Publications

Journal Articles

1. Nekeisha Spencer and Solomon Polachek (2015). Hurricane Watch: Battening Down the Effects of the Storm on Local Crop Production, Ecological Economics 120: 234-240.
Journal impact factor: 4.281, ABDC Journal Quality List: ranked A

2. Nekeisha Spencer, Solomon Polachek and Eric Strobl (2016). How do hurricanes impact scholastic achievement? A Caribbean perspective, Natural Hazards 84 (2): 1437-1462.
Journal impact factor: 2.319, ABDC Journal Quality List: environment field not listed

3. Nekeisha Spencer (2017). Look at What the Hurricanes Blew In: Analyzing the Impact of the Storm on Criminal Activities, Journal of Crime and Justice 40:4, 417-429.
Journal impact factor: 1.09, ABDC Journal Quality List: environment field not listed

4. Nekeisha Spencer (2017). Are Tropical Storms a Failure Warning? Evidence from Standardized School Examinations, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 24: 32-37.
Journal impact factor: 2.896, ABDC Journal Quality List: environment field not listed

5. Nekeisha Spencer and Mikhail-Ann Urquhart (2018). Hurricane Strikes and Migration: Evidence from Storms in Central America and the Caribbean, Weather, Climate and Society, 10:3, 569–577.
Journal impact factor: 2.043, ABDC Journal Quality List: environment field not listed,

6. Christopher Burgess, Michael Taylor, Nekeisha Spencer et al. (2018). Estimating Damages from Climate-related Natural Disasters for the Caribbean at 1.5 °C and 2 °C Global Warming above Preindustrial levels, Regional Environmental Change, 18: 8, 2297-2312.
Journal impact factor: 3.149, ABDC Journal Quality List: environment field not listed,

7. Nekeisha Spencer and Zhonghui Liu (2019). Victimization and Happiness: Evidence from a High Crime Country, Social Indicators Research, 144(1): 475-495.
Journal impact factor: 1.703, ABDC Journal Quality List: A

8. Nekeisha Spencer and Eric Strobl (2019). Crime Watch: Hurricanes and Illegal Activities, Southern Economic Journal, 86(1), 318-338.
Journal impact factor: 0.828, ABDC Journal Quality List: A

9. Preeya Mohan, Nekeisha Spencer and Eric Strobl (2019). Natural Hazard-Induced Disasters and Production Efficiency: Moving Closer to or Further from the Frontier? International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 10(2), 166-178.
Journal impact factor: 2.162, ABDC Journal Quality List: environment field not listed

10. Nekeisha Spencer, Mikhail-Ann Urquhart and Patrice Whitely (2020). Class Discrimination? Evidence from a Racially Homogeneous Labour Market, Review of Radical Political Economics, 52(1):77-95.
Journal impact factor: 0.568, ABDC Journal Quality List: B

11. Michael Henry, Nekeisha Spencer, Eric Strobl (2020). The Welfare Impact of Tropical Storms: Evidence from Household Panel Data, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 82(1): 1-22.
Journal impact factor: 1.512, ABDC Journal Quality List: A

12. Nekeisha Spencer and Eric Strobl (2020). The Impact of Decriminalization on Marijuana and Alcohol Consumption in Jamaica, Health Policy and Planning, 35: 180–185.
Journal impact factor: 2.717, ABDC Journal Quality List: not listed

13. Nekeisha Spencer and Eric Strobl (2020). Hurricanes, Climate Change, and Social Welfare: Evidence from the Caribbean. Climatic Change, 163(1), 337-357. Journal impact factor: 4.168, ABDC Journal Quality List: not listed

14. Nekeisha Spencer and Mikhail-Ann Urquhart (2021). Extreme Climate and Absence from Work: Evidence from Jamaica. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 12(2), 232-239. Journal impact factor: 2.162, ABDC Journal Quality List: environment field not listed

15. Nekeisha Spencer and Eric Strobl (2021). Poverty and Hurricane Risk Exposure in Jamaica. Forthcoming in The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review. DOI: 10.1057/s10713-021-00063-6.
Journal impact factor: 0.625, ABDC Journal Quality List: B

16. Alrick Campbell and Nekeisha Spencer (2021). The Macroeconomic Impact of Extreme Weather: Evidence from Jamaica. Forthcoming in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Journal impact factor: 2.896, ABDC Journal Quality List: environment field not listed

17. Jeetendra Khadan, Nekeisha Spencer, Eric Strobl, and Theophiline Bose-Duker (2021). Factors associated with being Overweight or Obese in Suriname. Forthcoming in International Journal of Public Health.
Journal impact factor: 2.419, ABDC Journal Quality List: field not listed

Technical Reports

1. Nekeisha Spencer (2015). "Natural Disaster Sovereign Risk: The Case of the Agriculture Sector in Jamaica", prepared for the World Bank, pp. 18.

2. Nekeisha Spencer (2013). "Regional Education Statistical Database," prepared for the Caribbean Examination Council and United States Agency for International Development (USAID), pp. 63.

3. Michael Witter, Kelly Dixon-Hamil and Nekeisha Spencer (2009). Child Poverty and Disparities in Jamaica, prepared for UNICEF, pp. 130.
Citations: 6

4. Michael Witter and Nekeisha Spencer (2009). "Child Poverty – Meaning and Measurement", prepared for the Department of Economics, PIOJ and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), pp. 21.

5. Michael Witter and Nekeisha Spencer (2009). "Pillars of Child Well Being," prepared for the PIOJ and UNICEF, pp. 34.

6. Michael Witter, Kelly Dixon-Hamil and Nekeisha Spencer (2008). "Some Explorations of Social Changes in Jamaica as Captured by the Survey of Living Conditions", 1989-2006, prepared for the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), pp. 34.

7. Michael Witter, Nekeisha Spencer and Kelly Dixon-Hamil (2008). "Some Social Indices for Jamaica" prepared for PIOJ, pp. 8.

8. Nekeisha Spencer and Mikhail-Ann Urquhart (2007). "Jamaican Economic Statistics Database," prepared for the New Initiative Grant, UWI, pp. 27.

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