Farmers' coping strategies against an aggregate shock: Evidence from the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
While rural households in developing countries deploy a series of risk coping strategies to insulate against shocks, their effectiveness relies heavily on the nature of the shocks. Using unique datasets collected before and after the disastrous 2008 Sichuan earthquake, this paper examines the effect...
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| author | Jin, Ling Chen, Kevin Z. Yu, Bingxin Filipski, Mateusz J. |
| author_browse | Chen, Kevin Z. Filipski, Mateusz J. Jin, Ling Yu, Bingxin |
| author_facet | Jin, Ling Chen, Kevin Z. Yu, Bingxin Filipski, Mateusz J. |
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| description | While rural households in developing countries deploy a series of risk coping strategies to insulate against shocks, their effectiveness relies heavily on the nature of the shocks. Using unique datasets collected before and after the disastrous 2008 Sichuan earthquake, this paper examines the effectiveness of various coping strategies employed by the affected rural households. The rural household survey identifies a number of coping strategies including depleting savings, government aid, subsidized bank loans, informal credit, private transfer, selling assets, and saving money by letting children drop out of school. Difference-in-differences (DID) estimation results show that, in response to the earthquake, rural households also adjust their income generating strategies through crop diversification and pursuing nonagricultural selfemployment, and increased working time by male household members. Jin, Ling; Chen, Kevin Z.; Yu, Bingxin; Filipski, Mateusz |
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| spelling | CGSpace1493682024-11-13T12:23:13Z Farmers' coping strategies against an aggregate shock: Evidence from the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake Jin, Ling Chen, Kevin Z. Yu, Bingxin Filipski, Mateusz J. shock natural disasters earthquakes resilience While rural households in developing countries deploy a series of risk coping strategies to insulate against shocks, their effectiveness relies heavily on the nature of the shocks. Using unique datasets collected before and after the disastrous 2008 Sichuan earthquake, this paper examines the effectiveness of various coping strategies employed by the affected rural households. The rural household survey identifies a number of coping strategies including depleting savings, government aid, subsidized bank loans, informal credit, private transfer, selling assets, and saving money by letting children drop out of school. Difference-in-differences (DID) estimation results show that, in response to the earthquake, rural households also adjust their income generating strategies through crop diversification and pursuing nonagricultural selfemployment, and increased working time by male household members. Jin, Ling; Chen, Kevin Z.; Yu, Bingxin; Filipski, Mateusz 2015-12-21 2024-08-01T02:49:17Z 2024-08-01T02:49:17Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149368 en Open Access Jin, Ling; Chen, Kevin Z.; Yu, Bingxin; Filipski, Mateusz. 2015. Farmers' coping strategies against an aggregate shock: Evidence from the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. Presented at the 29th Triennial International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE), August 8 -14, 2015 in Milan, Italy. https://purl.umn.edu/211814 |
| spellingShingle | shock natural disasters earthquakes resilience Jin, Ling Chen, Kevin Z. Yu, Bingxin Filipski, Mateusz J. Farmers' coping strategies against an aggregate shock: Evidence from the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake |
| title | Farmers' coping strategies against an aggregate shock: Evidence from the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake |
| title_full | Farmers' coping strategies against an aggregate shock: Evidence from the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake |
| title_fullStr | Farmers' coping strategies against an aggregate shock: Evidence from the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake |
| title_full_unstemmed | Farmers' coping strategies against an aggregate shock: Evidence from the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake |
| title_short | Farmers' coping strategies against an aggregate shock: Evidence from the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake |
| title_sort | farmers coping strategies against an aggregate shock evidence from the 2008 sichuan earthquake |
| topic | shock natural disasters earthquakes resilience |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149368 |
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