Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/242491 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionspapier No. 188
Publisher: 
Helmut-Schmidt-Universität - Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre, Hamburg
Abstract: 
In this paper, we investigate whether and how households adjust their agricultural practices such as cultivation and livestock to adapt to a severe typhoon.We, therefore, make use of a natural experiment coming from the strong typhoon Ketsana in 2009. We apply the difference-in-differences approach using micro-data on household level and spatial data of this severe typhoon. Our empirical findings suggest that households alter their agricultural activities in response to a strong typhoon. While they decrease the crops-planted area, they tend to purchase more livestock in the short term and in the medium term. Our paper not only indicates the adjustment to the crop-livestock system as an adaptation strategy to a severe typhoon, but it also is a warning about the contraction of crops production in the aftermath of this type of event.
Subjects: 
Typhoon
Agriculture
Crops
Livestock
Vietnam
JEL: 
O12
O13
Q12
Q15
Q54
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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