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Hurricane Mitch and consumption growth of Nicaraguan agricultural households

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Risk has been presented as a cause of poverty persistence under imperfect insurance mechanisms. This paper assesses the ex post effect of hurricane Mitch on consumption growth of Nicaraguan agricultural house-holds. How persistent was Mitch's direct impact beyond October 1998 damage? A nationally representative panel is available for 1998 and 2001, but affected households were also re-surveyed in 1999. Given the data design, idiosyncratic and common dimensions of the shock can be disentangled, together with its short and medium-term impacts. Satellite rainfall observations are interpolated at municipal centres to complement survey reports of hurricane-induced losses. Within the treated sample, micro-growth model estimates only point to a limited short-term negative impact of idiosyncratic damage, at most through floods and displacement. Mitch's medium-term common impact is considered in an experimental set-up. Households affected by Mitch do not suffer from lower growth between 1998 and 2001, even accounting for spatial heterogeneity. Overall, hurricane Mitch's direct consumption impact thus exhibits little persistence.

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  • Patrick Premand, 2008. "Hurricane Mitch and consumption growth of Nicaraguan agricultural households," CSAE Working Paper Series 2008-06, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
  • Handle: RePEc:csa:wpaper:2008-06
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    Cited by:

    1. Kirchberger, Martina, 2017. "Natural disasters and labor markets," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 125(C), pages 40-58.
    2. Fitch-Fleischmann, Benjamin & Kresch, Evan Plous, 2021. "Story of the hurricane: Government, NGOs, and the difference in disaster relief targeting," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 152(C).
    3. GerĂ³nimo Barrios Puente & Francisco Perez & Robert J. Gitter, 2016. "The Effect of Rainfall on Migration from Mexico to the United States," International Migration Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 50(4), pages 890-909, December.
    4. Martina Kirchberger, 2014. "Natural Disasters and Labour Markets," Economics Series Working Papers WPS/2014-19, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.

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    Keywords

    Risk; growth; natural experiment;
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    JEL classification:

    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets

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