Household Consumption and Natural Disasters: The Case of Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua

Marrit van den Berg and Kees Burger

No 44380, 2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium from European Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: This paper analyses coping strategies and consumption reactions of rural households in Nicaragua to hurricane Mitch, which caused massive losses in especially the agricultural sector in 1998. A switching-regression model confirms theoretical considerations which indicate that responses to transitory incomes depend on wealth. Asset-poor households do and asset-rich households do not adjust their consumption to transitory income changes.

Keywords: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.44380

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