Gone with the Storm : Rainfall Shocks and Household Wellbeing in Guatemala

This paper identifies the negative consequences of the strongest tropical storm ever to strike Guatemala on household welfare. Per capita consumption fell in urban areas, raising poverty substantially. Households cut back on food consumption and basic durables, and attempted to cope by increasing th...

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Main Authors:	Baez, Javier E., Lucchetti, Leonardo, Genoni, Maria E., Salazar, Mateo
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2017
Subjects:	ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RAINFALL NATURAL DISASTERS CONSUMPTION POVERTY TROPICAL STORM AGATHA
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27678

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spelling	okr-10986-276782021-05-25T10:54:42Z Gone with the Storm : Rainfall Shocks and Household Wellbeing in Guatemala Baez, Javier E. Lucchetti, Leonardo Genoni, Maria E. Salazar, Mateo ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RAINFALL NATURAL DISASTERS CONSUMPTION POVERTY TROPICAL STORM AGATHA This paper identifies the negative consequences of the strongest tropical storm ever to strike Guatemala on household welfare. Per capita consumption fell in urban areas, raising poverty substantially. Households cut back on food consumption and basic durables, and attempted to cope by increasing their adult and child labour supply. The mechanisms at play include the intensity of the shock, food prices and the timing of Agatha with respect to local harvest cycles. The results are robust to placebo treatments, migration and measurement error, and partly explain the increase in poverty in the country previously attributed solely to the collateral effects of the global financial crisis. 2017-08-08T19:57:14Z 2017-08-08T19:57:14Z 2016-09-14 Journal Article Journal of Development Studies 0022-0388 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27678 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean Guatemala
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spellingShingle	ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RAINFALL NATURAL DISASTERS CONSUMPTION POVERTY TROPICAL STORM AGATHA Baez, Javier E. Lucchetti, Leonardo Genoni, Maria E. Salazar, Mateo Gone with the Storm : Rainfall Shocks and Household Wellbeing in Guatemala
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description	This paper identifies the negative consequences of the strongest tropical storm ever to strike Guatemala on household welfare. Per capita consumption fell in urban areas, raising poverty substantially. Households cut back on food consumption and basic durables, and attempted to cope by increasing their adult and child labour supply. The mechanisms at play include the intensity of the shock, food prices and the timing of Agatha with respect to local harvest cycles. The results are robust to placebo treatments, migration and measurement error, and partly explain the increase in poverty in the country previously attributed solely to the collateral effects of the global financial crisis.
format	Journal Article
author	Baez, Javier E. Lucchetti, Leonardo Genoni, Maria E. Salazar, Mateo
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title	Gone with the Storm : Rainfall Shocks and Household Wellbeing in Guatemala
title_short	Gone with the Storm : Rainfall Shocks and Household Wellbeing in Guatemala
title_full	Gone with the Storm : Rainfall Shocks and Household Wellbeing in Guatemala
title_fullStr	Gone with the Storm : Rainfall Shocks and Household Wellbeing in Guatemala
title_full_unstemmed	Gone with the Storm : Rainfall Shocks and Household Wellbeing in Guatemala
title_sort	gone with the storm : rainfall shocks and household wellbeing in guatemala
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Gone with the Storm : Rainfall Shocks and Household Wellbeing in Guatemala

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