Variability in agricultural productivity and rural household consumption inequality: Evidence from Nigeria and Uganda
This paper uses multiple rounds of household survey panel data to assess the distributional implications of variability in agricultural productivity in Nigeria and Uganda. It uses both a conventional decomposition and a regression-based inequality decomposition to estimate the impact of climate-indu...
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| author | Amare, Mulubrhan Shiferaw, Bekele Takeshima, Hiroyuki Mavrotas, George |
| author_browse | Amare, Mulubrhan Mavrotas, George Shiferaw, Bekele Takeshima, Hiroyuki |
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| description | This paper uses multiple rounds of household survey panel data to assess the distributional implications of variability in agricultural productivity in Nigeria and Uganda. It uses both a conventional decomposition and a regression-based inequality decomposition to estimate the impact of climate-induced variability in agricultural productivity. To mitigate the endogeneity associated with unobserved time-invariant and time-variant household fixed effects, we use rainfall shocks as a proxy for estimating the exogenous variability in agricultural productivity that affects consumption. Results suggest that a 10 percent increase in the variability of agricultural productivity tends to decrease household consumption by 38 and 52 percent on average for Nigeria and Uganda, respectively. Controlling for other factors, variability in agricultural productivity contributed to between 25 and 43 percent of consumption inequality between 2010 and 2015 for Nigeria; and 16 and 31 percent of consumption inequality between 2009 and 2011 for Uganda. We also show that variability in agricultural productivity increases changes in consumption inequality over time. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1439132025-11-06T05:15:55Z Variability in agricultural productivity and rural household consumption inequality: Evidence from Nigeria and Uganda Amare, Mulubrhan Shiferaw, Bekele Takeshima, Hiroyuki Mavrotas, George shock consumption climate agricultural productivity household consumption rural areas equality This paper uses multiple rounds of household survey panel data to assess the distributional implications of variability in agricultural productivity in Nigeria and Uganda. It uses both a conventional decomposition and a regression-based inequality decomposition to estimate the impact of climate-induced variability in agricultural productivity. To mitigate the endogeneity associated with unobserved time-invariant and time-variant household fixed effects, we use rainfall shocks as a proxy for estimating the exogenous variability in agricultural productivity that affects consumption. Results suggest that a 10 percent increase in the variability of agricultural productivity tends to decrease household consumption by 38 and 52 percent on average for Nigeria and Uganda, respectively. Controlling for other factors, variability in agricultural productivity contributed to between 25 and 43 percent of consumption inequality between 2010 and 2015 for Nigeria; and 16 and 31 percent of consumption inequality between 2009 and 2011 for Uganda. We also show that variability in agricultural productivity increases changes in consumption inequality over time. 2021-01-01 2024-05-22T12:18:02Z 2024-05-22T12:18:02Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143913 en https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12604 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Amare, Mulubrhan; Shiferaw, Bekele; Takeshima, Hiroyuki; and Mavrotas, George. 2021. Variability in agricultural productivity and rural household consumption inequality: Evidence from Nigeria and Uganda. NSSP Working Paper 67. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134237. |
| spellingShingle | shock consumption climate agricultural productivity household consumption rural areas equality Amare, Mulubrhan Shiferaw, Bekele Takeshima, Hiroyuki Mavrotas, George Variability in agricultural productivity and rural household consumption inequality: Evidence from Nigeria and Uganda |
| title | Variability in agricultural productivity and rural household consumption inequality: Evidence from Nigeria and Uganda |
| title_full | Variability in agricultural productivity and rural household consumption inequality: Evidence from Nigeria and Uganda |
| title_fullStr | Variability in agricultural productivity and rural household consumption inequality: Evidence from Nigeria and Uganda |
| title_full_unstemmed | Variability in agricultural productivity and rural household consumption inequality: Evidence from Nigeria and Uganda |
| title_short | Variability in agricultural productivity and rural household consumption inequality: Evidence from Nigeria and Uganda |
| title_sort | variability in agricultural productivity and rural household consumption inequality evidence from nigeria and uganda |
| topic | shock consumption climate agricultural productivity household consumption rural areas equality |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143913 |
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