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| Title: | Household Consumption and Natural Disasters: The Case of Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua |
| Authors: | van den Berg, Marrit
Burger, Kees |
| Keywords: | Natural disasters
assets
consumption smoothing |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Abstract: | This paper analyses coping strategies and
consumption reactions of rural households in Nicaragua to
hurricane Mitch, which caused massive losses in especially
the agricultural sector in 1998. A switching-regression
model confirms theoretical considerations which indicate
that responses to transitory incomes depend on wealth.
Asset-poor households do and asset-rich households do not
adjust their consumption to transitory income changes. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/44380 |
| Institution/Association: | European Association of Agricultural Economists>2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium |
| Total Pages: | 12 |
| Collections: | 2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium
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