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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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Feng, Shuaizhang Lu, Jingliang Nolen, Patrick Wang, Lei |
| author_browse | Feng, Shuaizhang Lu, Jingliang Nolen, Patrick Wang, Lei |
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| description | 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 regard to government support, living subsidies were more than enough to offset losses in annual income, but reconstruction aid, such as grants and bank loans for housing, accounted for less than 60 percent of total house-rebuilding costs. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1484132025-11-06T04:19:00Z The effect of the Wenchuan earthquake and government aid on rural households Feng, Shuaizhang Lu, Jingliang Nolen, Patrick Wang, Lei disaster relief natural disasters emergency relief earthquakes 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 regard to government support, living subsidies were more than enough to offset losses in annual income, but reconstruction aid, such as grants and bank loans for housing, accounted for less than 60 percent of total house-rebuilding costs. 2016-04-13 2024-06-21T09:24:37Z 2024-06-21T09:24:37Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148413 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Feng, Shuaizhang; Lu, Jingliang; Nolen, Patrick; and Wang, Lei. 2016. The effect of the Wenchuan earthquake and government aid on rural households. In Earthquake lessons from China: Coping and rebuilding strategies. Chen, Kevin Z.; Zhang, Qiang; and Hsu, Claire (Eds.). Chapter 2. Pp. 11-34. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896298743_02. |
| spellingShingle | disaster relief natural disasters emergency relief earthquakes Feng, Shuaizhang Lu, Jingliang Nolen, Patrick Wang, Lei The effect of the Wenchuan earthquake and government aid on rural households |
| title | The effect of the Wenchuan earthquake and government aid on rural households |
| title_full | The effect of the Wenchuan earthquake and government aid on rural households |
| title_fullStr | The effect of the Wenchuan earthquake and government aid on rural households |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effect of the Wenchuan earthquake and government aid on rural households |
| title_short | The effect of the Wenchuan earthquake and government aid on rural households |
| title_sort | effect of the wenchuan earthquake and government aid on rural households |
| topic | disaster relief natural disasters emergency relief earthquakes |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148413 |
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