Rainfall shocks and agricultural productivity: Implication for rural household consumption

Poverty transitions, shocks, and consumption in rural Bangladesh: Preliminary results from a longitudinal household survey

This paper examines the correlates of poverty transitions and consumption per capita, using a new longitudinal data set from Bangladesh. It first examines the determinants of poverty transition categories (chronic poor, never poor, falling into poverty, moving out of poverty) as a function of household characteristics in the original survey round and shocks experienced by the household, control...

External Shocks, Household Consumption and Fertility in Indonesia

This paper examines the impact of idiosyncratic income shocks on household consumption, educational expenditure and fertility in Indonesia, and assesses whether the investment in human capital of children and fertility are used to smooth household consumption. Using six different kinds of self-reported economic hardships, our findings indicate that coping mechanisms are rather efficient for Ind...

Productivity Shocks and Consumption Smoothing in the International Economy

We develop a two-country, dynamic general equilibrium model that links cross-country differences in net foreign asset and consumption dynamics to differences in discount factors and steady-state levels of productivity. We compare the results of the model to those of VARs for the G3 economies. We identify country-specific productivity shocks by assuming that productivity does not respond contemp...

How does Household Consumption Respond to Income Shocks?

In this paper we …rst use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth to document how various household choices (including consumption and wealth) change in response to an income change. We show that these responses are not consistent with simple benchmark models (i.e. complete markets or hands to mouth consumers). In particular, we …nd evidence of signi…cant asymmetries in how consumptio...

The Impact of Rainfall Variability on Agricultural Production and Household Welfare in Rural Malawi by Heather G. Moylan