Welfare Impacts of Climate Shocks: Evidence from Uganda

Solomon Asfaw, Andrea Piano Mortari, Aslihan Arslan, Panagiotis Karfakis and Leslie Lipper

No 230217, 2015 Conference, August 9-14, 2015, Milan, Italy from International Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: This paper evaluates the effects of weather/climate shocks on household welfare using a nationally representative panel data from Uganda together with a set of novel climate variation indicators. Where the effect of climate/weather variability has a significantly negative effect on household welfare, we further test the hypotheses that policy-relevant mechanisms can be effective means of mitigating the negative welfare effects. In general we obtain very few significant results with respect to climate/weather shock variables which might point towards a consumption and income smoothing behavior by the households, whose welfare level is not affected by the weather shocks. With regards to the different shocks definition, the reference period used to define the shock does not matter since the coefficients and the signs do not change with the reference period. Different policy action variables have also heterogeneous impact across different outcome variables in terms of mitigating the negative impact of climate/weather shocks.

Keywords: Environmental Economics and Policy; International Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35
Date: 2015-08
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.230217

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