Designing Compensation Programs for Individuals and Households After Man-Made and Natural Disasters in the United States

doi:10.7249/RR1005

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DOI	10.7249/RR1005
报告编号	RR-1005-ICJ
	Designing Compensation Programs for Individuals and Households After Man-Made and Natural Disasters in the United States
	Steven Garber
	2016
出版年	2016
页数	86
语种	英语
国家	美国
出版者	RAND Corporation
领域	资源环境
英文摘要	Man-made and natural disasters (such as mass shootings, terrorist attacks, flooding, and hurricanes) occur fairly frequently in the United States. Much less frequently, after a disaster occurs, ad hoc victim compensation programs (VCPs) are instituted using public or private funds. The designs of such VCPs — specifying who is eligible for compensation, how much compensation each person receives, procedures for claiming funds and auditing the program, and so on — have differed across programs and often engender considerable controversy. Those responsible for designing these programs must balance competing outcomes and fulfill obligations to various stakeholders, such as victims, taxpayers, and donors. The objective of this report is to help VCP designers make decisions that balance fairness to victims, speed of compensation, and size of transaction costs. It does so by considering design choices in four public VCPs created since 2001 and seven private VCPs created since 2007, highlighting major issues that designers are likely to confront, considering multiple outcomes of design decisions (for example, fairness), and recognizing conflicts or trade-offs in balancing such outcomes. The report offers practical suggestions for how VCP designers can achieve their goals fairly, quickly, and efficiently.
英文关键词	Victims of Crime United States Victim Compensation Programs Natural Hazards Domestic Terrorism Mass Torts
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来源平台	Rand Corporation
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文献类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/4358
专题	资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Steven Garber. Designing Compensation Programs for Individuals and Households After Man-Made and Natural Disasters in the United States:RAND Corporation,2016.