| dc.creator |
Rungruxsirivorn, Ornsiri |
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| dc.date |
2007 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2013-10-16T07:07:18Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2013-10-16T07:07:18Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2013-10-16 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19881 |
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| dc.identifier |
ppn:560908334 |
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| dc.identifier |
RePEc:zbw:gdec07:6550 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19881 |
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| dc.description |
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. |
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| dc.language |
eng |
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| dc.publisher |
|
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| dc.relation |
Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Göttingen 2007 / Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics 27 |
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| dc.rights |
http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen |
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| dc.subject |
ddc:330 |
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| dc.title |
Household Risk Management in Rural and Urban Thailand |
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| dc.type |
doc-type:conferenceObject |
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