The question “How resilient are rural households?” is becoming an important research issue, especially in the context of more frequent and severe shocks in rural areas of developing countries. We use balanced panel data from 3367 households from Thailand and Vietnam collected in 2010, 2013, and 2016 to estimate a (latent) variable reflecting resilience capacity of rural households and examine...
Against the background of growing climate change-related extreme weather events leading to environmental/natural disasters, we assess the capacity of rural households to manage recovery in developing countries. We investigate this in the context of floods in South India by studying both the extent and patterns of financial damage and the recovery from flood-induced damage.
Using primary data...
Allowing for in-place adaptation when analysing climate migration drastically changes policy implications. Besides sending migrants, Kenyan households react to temperature shocks by transiting to less climate-sensitive (non-agricultural) occupations and by changing livestock species. These in-place adaptations shed light on the mechanisms through which common policies weaken temperature’s...
