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Risky Coping

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  • Yoshito Takasaki

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This paper examines whether, in an effort to cope with adverse shocks, poor people with limited coping capacity take large risks (risky coping). About two years after a tropical cyclone in Fiji, many people decided to apply for dangerous international jobs involving casualty risk through a recruitment agency that later turned out to be a fraudster. The analysis reveals that victims with damaged housing are more likely to undertake this risky investment strategy than non-victims. I show evidence that disaster victims use this strategy for risk coping, but not because they have become less risk averse.

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  • Yoshito Takasaki, 2018. "Risky Coping," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(3), pages 501-522, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:54:y:2018:i:3:p:501-522
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2017.1293814
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    1. Tongruksawattana, Songporne, 2013. "Adaptation to climate change under poverty, food security and gender perspective of rural maize-legume farmers in Kenya," 2013 Fourth International Conference, September 22-25, 2013, Hammamet, Tunisia 161647, African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE).
    2. Fisher, Monica G. & Shively, Gerald E., 2003. "Do Tropical Forests Provide A Safety Net? Income Shocks And Forest Extraction In Malawi," 2003 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Montreal, Canada 22228, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).

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