Disquiet on the Weather Front : The Welfare Impacts of Climatic Variability in the Rural Philippines
Three recent rounds (2003, 2006, and 2009) of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey are matched to rainfall data from 43 rainfall stations in the Philippines to quantify the extent to which unusual weather has any negative effects on the consump...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/08/18125009/disquiet-weather-front-welfare-impacts-climatic-variability-rural-philippines http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16013 |
| Summary: | Three recent rounds (2003, 2006, and
2009) of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey are
matched to rainfall data from 43 rainfall stations in the
Philippines to quantify the extent to which unusual weather
has any negative effects on the consumption of Filipino
households. It is found that negative rainfall shocks
decrease consumption, in particular food consumption.
Rainfall below one standard deviation of its long-run
average causes food consumption to decrease by about 4
percent, when compared with rainfall within one standard
deviation. Positive deviations above one standard deviation
have a limited impact. Moreover, for households close to a
highway or to a fixed-line phone, consumption appears to be
fully protected from the impact of negative rainfall shocks. |
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