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Private disaster expenditures by rural Bangladeshi households: evidence from survey data

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  • Eskander, Shaikh M.S.U.
  • Steele, Paul

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This paper investigates household’s private expenditures to cope with the harmful losses of climate change and disasters. Using household-level survey data from Bangladesh, this paper finds that disaster-affected rural Bangladeshi households allocate between $499 and $1076 in disaster-related expenditures. Such expenditures are always greater than their relevant precautionary savings, implying that those households may debt-finance their defensive measures. Households with greater precautionary savings spend more: a 100% increase in precautionary savings can increase disaster expenditures by 5%. Moreover, there are considerable regional heterogeneities in household’s disaster expenditures. Increased public sector allocations in addition to carefully designed affordable market-based financing instruments can potentially ease the pressure on disaster-affected households in their fight against the harms of climate change and disaster.

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  • Eskander, Shaikh M.S.U. & Steele, Paul, 2023. "Private disaster expenditures by rural Bangladeshi households: evidence from survey data," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 118337, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    Keywords

    Bangladesh; climate change; climate finance; disaster; disaster expenditures; disaster risk; expenditures; precautionary savings;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming

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