Typhoon and agricultural production portfolio empirical evidence for a developing economy:

In this paper, we investigate whether and how households adjust their agricultural practices such as cultivation and livestock to adapt to a severe typhoon.We, therefore, make use of a natural experiment coming from the strong typhoon Ketsana in 2009. We apply the difference-in-differences approach...

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Main Author: Thi Xuyen Tran (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg, Department of Economics May 2021
Series:Diskussionspapierreihe / Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg, Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre Nr./No. 188
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Summary:In this paper, we investigate whether and how households adjust their agricultural practices such as cultivation and livestock to adapt to a severe typhoon.We, therefore, make use of a natural experiment coming from the strong typhoon Ketsana in 2009. We apply the difference-in-differences approach using micro-data on household level and spatial data of this severe typhoon. Our empirical findings suggest that households alter their agricultural activities in response to a strong typhoon. While they decrease the crops-planted area, they tend to purchase more livestock in the short term and in the medium term. Our paper not only indicates the adjustment to the crop-livestock system as an adaptation strategy to a severe typhoon, but it also is a warning about the contraction of crops production in the aftermath of this type of event
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