Effectiveness of rural households' coping strategies against aggregate shocks

While rural households in developing countries deploy a series of risk coping strategies to insulate against shocks, their effectiveness relies extraordinarily on the nature of the shocks. Using unique datasets collected before and after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, this paper examines the performan...

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Main Authors: Jin, Ling, Filipski, Mateusz J., Chen, Kevin Z.
Format: Conference Paper
Language:Inglés
Published: China Agricultural Economic Review 2014
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151402

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