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

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dc.creatorvan den Berg, Marrit
dc.creatorBurger, Kees
dc.date2017-04-01T19:45:08Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T04:35:59Z
dc.descriptionThis 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.
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.44380
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/44380/files/220.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/44380
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/552264
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/44380
dc.titleHousehold Consumption and Natural Disasters: The Case of Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua
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