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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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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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This article reviews the literature on the economic impacts of disasters caused by extreme weather and climate events to draw lessons on how societies can better manage these risks. While evidence that richer, better governed societies suffer less and recover faster from climate extremes...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022180
This paper uses municipality level data to estimate the general relationships between climate, income and child mortality in Mexico. Climate was found to play only a very minor role in explaining the large differences in income levels and child mortality rates observed in Mexico. This implies...
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