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

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dc.creatorFeng, Shuaizhang
dc.creatorLu, Jingliang
dc.creatorNolen, Patrick
dc.creatorWang, Lei
dc.date2016-04-13
dc.date2024-06-21T09:24:37Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:24:37Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:45:11Z
dc.descriptionThis 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.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/148413
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/113625
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceFeng, Shuaizhang; Lu, Jingliang; Nolen, Patrick; and Wang, Lei. 2016. The effect of the Wenchuan earthquake and government aid on rural households. In Earthquake lessons from China: Coping and rebuilding strategies. Chen, Kevin Z.; Zhang, Qiang; and Hsu, Claire (Eds.). Chapter 2. Pp. 11-34. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896298743_02.
dc.subjectdisaster relief
dc.subjectnatural disasters
dc.subjectemergency relief
dc.subjectearthquakes
dc.titleThe effect of the Wenchuan earthquake and government aid on rural households
dc.typeBook Chapter

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