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This paper investigates the vulnerability of households to climatic disasters in the low-lying atoll nation of Tuvalu … the different islands of Tuvalu, and combine these with geographic and topographic information to assess the exposure …
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Using Vulnerability as Expected Utility (VEU) analysis that permits the decomposition of household vulnerability into … its components on a unique data set this paper demonstrates that in rural India household vulnerability is most explained … participating in government programmes. Further, household consumption is highly covariate with income. This implies that existing …
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We estimate the causal effect of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka on household income and consumption eight years … increases in household income and consumption in the long-term emerged from our empirical investigation. Deviating from the … nuanced picture with respect to household consumption impacts. We observe a reduction of food consumption and only find an …
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In 2011, Thailand experienced its worst flood ever. Using repeated waves of the Thai Household Survey, we analyse the …
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In 2011, Thailand experienced its worst flood ever. Using repeated waves of the Thai Household Survey, we analyse the …
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household. Using a two-wave household panel survey dataset, choice of adaptation strategies employed by female- and male … reveal that gender of the household head matters in adaptation to climate-induced shocks. Specific differences were found …
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We examine the impact of temperature shocks and climate change on household financial behaviour in Viet Nam. To do so …, we first estimate the effect of temperature on household borrowing and savings using Vietnamese longitudinal data that … matches satellite reanalysis temperature data with household information over the period 2008 to 2016. We find that an …
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