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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Rungruxsirivorn, Ornsiri | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2009-01-28T16:08:32Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2009-01-28T16:08:32Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2007 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19881 | | - |
| dc.description.abstract | | This paper examines the nature of risk faced by households in Thailand and the strategies that these households adopt to mitigate the adverse effect from income shortfalls. I use a new cross-section dataset that is based on a sample of both urban and rural households. I find that price shock is the most prevalent source of income shortfalls. I also find that the most common risk-mitigating strategy employed by households is to borrow from the Village Fund. Nonetheless, there is a high degree of heterogeneity among households, especially in terms of their sources of income and this plays a key role in determining how a household responds to shocks. Thus, it may not be advisable to design policy based on the paradigm of a representative consumer. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Göttingen 2007 / Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics 27 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.title | | Household Risk Management in Rural and Urban Thailand | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Conference Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 560908334 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | - |
| dc.identifier.repec | | RePEc:zbw:gdec07:6550 | | - |
| Appears in Collections: | | Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, 2007 (Göttingen)
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