The effect of the Wenchuan earthquake and government aid on rural households

Shuaizhang Feng, Jingliang Lu (), Patrick Nolen and Lei Wang

Chapter 2 in Earthquake lessons from China: Coping and rebuilding strategies, 2016, pp 11-34 from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: This chapter discusses the impact of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake on household income, consumption, and income inequality using a unique dataset collected in rural Sichuan. We find that household income fell by 14 percent because of the earthquake and that income inequality did not increase. With regard to government support, living subsidies were more than enough to offset losses in annual income, but reconstruction aid, such as grants and bank loans for housing, accounted for less than 60 percent of total house-rebuilding costs.

Keywords: disaster relief; natural disasters; emergency relief; earthquakes; China; Asia; Eastern Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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