Welfare impacts of climate shocks Evidence from Uganda
This paper evaluates the effects of weather/climate shocks on various measures of household welfare using a nationally representative panel data from Uganda National Panel Survey (UNPS) together with a set of novel climate variation indicators. We estimated generalized least square (GLS) random effects and quintile regression models to address the research questions. Our results point towards a consumption and income smoothing behaviour by the households since: we obtain very few significant results with respect to climate/weather shock variables togetherwith highly significant effects of the socio-demographic and wealth control variables. We also investigate if different shocks definitions, i.e the reference period used to define the shock, modifies our results. The latter are robust since the coefficients and the signs do not change with the reference period. We further test the hypotheses that policy-relevant mechanisms can be effective means of mitigating the negative welfare effects. For instance access to credit services and use of sustainable land management practices enables the households to contain the negative effects of climate shock on per capita food consumption from own produced crops but not the case for some of the outcome variables.
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| Format: | Book (stand-alone) biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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FAO ;
2016
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| Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/i5607e http://www.fao.org/3/i5607e/i5607e.pdf |
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