TY  - BOOK
AU  - Safir,Abla
AU  - Piza,Sharon Faye
AU  - Safir,Abla
AU  - Skoufias,Emmanuel
TI  - Disquiet on the Weather Front: The Welfare Impacts of Climatic Variability in the Rural Philippines 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Climate Change Economics
KW  - Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases
KW  - Climatic variability
KW  - Food consumption
KW  - Household adaptation strategies
KW  - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
KW  - Negative rainfall shocks
KW  - Poverty Reduction
KW  - Regional Economic Development
KW  - Science of Climate Change
KW  - Standard deviation
KW  - Water Conservation
N2  - Three recent rounds (2003, 2006, and 2009) of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey are matched to rainfall data from 43 rainfall stations in the Philippines to quantify the extent to which unusual weather has any negative effects on the consumption of Filipino households. It is found that negative rainfall shocks decrease consumption, in particular food consumption. Rainfall below one standard deviation of its long-run average causes food consumption to decrease by about 4 percent, when compared with rainfall within one standard deviation. Positive deviations above one standard deviation have a limited impact. Moreover, for households close to a highway or to a fixed-line phone, consumption appears to be fully protected from the impact of negative rainfall shocks
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-6579
ER  -