The effect of the Wenchuan earthquake and government aid on rural households

This chapter discusses the impact of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake on household income, consumption, and income inequality using a unique dataset collected in rural Sichuan. We find that household income fell by 14 percent because of the earthquake and that income inequality did not increase. With reg...

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Autores principales:	Feng, Shuaizhang, Lu, Jingliang, Nolen, Patrick, Wang, Lei
Formato:	Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:	Inglés
Publicado:	International Food Policy Research Institute 2016
Materias:	disaster relief natural disasters emergency relief earthquakes
Acceso en línea:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148413