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dc.contributor.author | Rungruxsirivorn, Ornsiri | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-01-28T16:08:32Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-01-28T16:08:32Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | - |
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 |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aVerein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer |cGöttingen | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aProceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Göttingen 2007 |x27 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.title | Household Risk Management in Rural and Urban Thailand | - |
dc.type | Conference Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 560908334 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
dc.identifier.repec | RePEc:zbw:gdec07:6550 | en |
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