Floods and Household Welfare: Evidence from Southeast Asia

This research uses a rich panel data set of household surveys and external long-term flood data, extracted from satellite images, to complete a puzzling picture of the effects of floods on household welfare. Floods impose a mixed impact on households. On the one hand, the floods reduce household inc...

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Published inEconomics of disasters and climate change Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 145 - 170
Main Author Tu Le, Thi Ngoc
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 2020
Subjects
Climate
Climate Change
Economics
Economics and Finance
Environmental Economics
Environmental Sociology
International Environmental Law
Natural Hazards
Original Paper
Geographic information systems (GIS)
Welfare impacts
Q54
MSC: 91B76
Q15
Flood impacts
Consumption impacts
I31
MODIS images
Q51
Income impacts
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Summary:This research uses a rich panel data set of household surveys and external long-term flood data, extracted from satellite images, to complete a puzzling picture of the effects of floods on household welfare. Floods impose a mixed impact on households. On the one hand, the floods reduce household incomes dependent on natural sources; while on the other hand, floods push farmers out of the fields to seek extra incomes from non-agricultural activities. In addition, the floods significantly increase some types of expenditure. The finding of a lower household subjective wellbeing score reaffirms all these results. Further, this research shows the efforts that rural households are making to cope with the effects of flooding. They employ both formal and informal coping mechanisms; however, only financial remittances are shown to be significantly effective in providing relief.
ISSN:2511-1280
2511-1299
DOI:10.1007/s41885-019-00055-x