| Autor: |
Emmanuel Skoufias, B. Essama-Nssah, Roy S. Katayama |
| Rok vydání: |
2011 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Too little too late: Welfare impacts of rainfall shocks in rural Indonesia |
| DOI: |
10.1596/1813-9450-5615 |
| Popis: |
In this article, the authors consider two shocks: (i) a delay in the onset of monsoon; and (ii) a significant shortfall in rainfall in the 90 day post-onset period. Focusing on households with family farm businesses, the authors find that a delay in the monsoon onset does not have a significant impact on the welfare of rice farmers. However, rice farm households located in areas exposed to low rainfall following the monsoon are negatively affected. Rice farm households appear to be able to protect their food expenditure in the face of weather shocks at the expense of lower nonfood expenditures per capita. The authors also use propensity score matching to identify community programs that may moderate the welfare impact of this type of shock. Access to credit and public works projects in communities were among the programs with the strongest moderating effect. This is an important consideration for the design and implementation of adaptation strategies. The paper is organized as follows: section one gives introduction. Section two presents the methodology focusing on the estimation of the impacts of rainfall variability on household expenditure per capita. Section three describes the available data while analytical results are presented in section four. Concluding remarks are made in section five. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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