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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description 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 performance of all the principal coping strategies employed by the affected rural households. We find that the seven directly surveyed coping strategies can be ranked according to the receipts financed by applying them as depleting savings, government aid, subsidized bank loans, informal credit, private transfer, selling assets, and saving money by letting children drop out of school.
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spelling CGSpace1514022025-11-06T07:00:37Z Effectiveness of rural households' coping strategies against aggregate shocks Jin, Ling Filipski, Mateusz J. Chen, Kevin Z. income shock natural disasters labour statistics resilience 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 performance of all the principal coping strategies employed by the affected rural households. We find that the seven directly surveyed coping strategies can be ranked according to the receipts financed by applying them as depleting savings, government aid, subsidized bank loans, informal credit, private transfer, selling assets, and saving money by letting children drop out of school. 2014 2024-08-01T02:57:06Z 2024-08-01T02:57:06Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151402 en Open Access application/pdf China Agricultural Economic Review International Food Policy Research Institute Ling Jin; Mateusz Filipski and Kevin Chen. 2014. Effectiveness of Rural Households' Coping Strategies against Aggregate Shocks: Evidence from the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. CAER-IFPRI 6th annual conference scheduled on October 16-17, 2014 in Yangling City, Shaanxi Province, China. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151402
spellingShingle income
shock
natural disasters
labour statistics
resilience
Jin, Ling
Filipski, Mateusz J.
Chen, Kevin Z.
Effectiveness of rural households' coping strategies against aggregate shocks
title Effectiveness of rural households' coping strategies against aggregate shocks
title_full Effectiveness of rural households' coping strategies against aggregate shocks
title_fullStr Effectiveness of rural households' coping strategies against aggregate shocks
title_full_unstemmed Effectiveness of rural households' coping strategies against aggregate shocks
title_short Effectiveness of rural households' coping strategies against aggregate shocks
title_sort effectiveness of rural households coping strategies against aggregate shocks
topic income
shock
natural disasters
labour statistics
resilience
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151402
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