How Long to Read Coping with Climate Shocks: Food Security in a Spatial Framework

How Long Does it Take to Read Coping with Climate Shocks: Food Security in a Spatial Framework?

It takes the average reader and 47 minutes to read Coping with Climate Shocks: Food Security in a Spatial Framework by Diogo Baptista

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Description

We develop a quantitative spatial general equilibrium model with heterogeneous house-holds and multiple locations to study households’ vulnerability to food insecurity from cli-mate shocks. In the model, households endogenously respond to negative climate shocks by drawing-down assets, importing food and temporarily migrating to earn additional income to ensure sufficient calories. Because these coping strategies are most effective when trade and migration costs are low, remote households are more vulnerable to climate shocks. Food insecure households are also more vulnerable, as their proximity to a subsistence requirement causes them to hold a smaller capital buffer and more aggressively dissave in response to shocks, at the expense of future consumption. We calibrate the model to 51 districts in Nepal and estimate the impact of historical climate shocks on food consumption and welfare. We estimate that, on an annual basis, floods, landslides, droughts and storms combined generated GDP losses of 2.3 percent, welfare losses of 3.3 percent for the average household and increased the rate of undernourishment by 2.8 percent. Undernourished households experience roughly 50 percent larger welfare losses and those in remote locations suffer welfare losses that are roughly two times larger than in less remote locations (5.9 vs 2.9 percent). In counterfactual simulations, we show the role of better access to migration and trade in building resilience to climate shocks.

How long is Coping with Climate Shocks: Food Security in a Spatial Framework?

Coping with Climate Shocks: Food Security in a Spatial Framework by Diogo Baptista is 46 pages long, and a total of 11,776 words.

This makes it 16% the length of the average book. It also has 14% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Coping with Climate Shocks: Food Security in a Spatial Framework Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 4 minutes to read Coping with Climate Shocks: Food Security in a Spatial Framework aloud.

What Reading Level is Coping with Climate Shocks: Food Security in a Spatial Framework?

Coping with Climate Shocks: Food Security in a Spatial Framework is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

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