When it Rains, it Pours: Estimating the Spatial Spillover Effect of Rainfall

Farzana Hossain () and Reshad N. Ahsan ()
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Farzana Hossain: Monash University
Reshad N. Ahsan: University of Melbourne

Environmental & Resource Economics, 2022, vol. 82, issue 2, No 2, 327-354

Abstract: Abstract A large fraction of the world’s poor rely on rain-fed agriculture, which makes them vulnerable to changes in rainfall patterns. In this paper, we examine whether spatial correlation in rainfall results in these households also being vulnerable to an adverse spatial-spillover effect. In particular, we use household-level panel data from India along with high-resolution meteorological data to show how rural household consumption varies with own-region rainfall as well as rainfall in neighboring areas. We find that while greater own rainfall has a positive effect on rural household consumption, greater rainfall in neighboring regions has an adverse spatial-spillover effect. Our results suggest that when this spillover effect is taken into account, the positive impact of own-region rainfall on household consumption falls by 38 percent.

Keywords: Rainfall; Rural households; Climate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q12 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/s10640-022-00680-3

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