TY - BOOK ID - 138698021 TI - Disquiet on the Weather Front : The Welfare Impacts of Climatic Variability in the Rural Philippines AU - Safir, Abla AU - Piza, Sharon Faye AU - Skoufias, Emmanuel PY - 2013 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Climate Change Economics KW - Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases KW - Climatic variability KW - Food consumption KW - Household adaptation strategies KW - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth KW - Negative rainfall shocks KW - Poverty Reduction KW - Regional Economic Development KW - Science of Climate Change KW - Standard deviation KW - Water Conservation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138698021 AB - Three recent rounds (2003, 2006, and 2009) of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey are matched to rainfall data from 43 rainfall stations in the Philippines to quantify the extent to which unusual weather has any negative effects on the consumption of Filipino households. It is found that negative rainfall shocks decrease consumption, in particular food consumption. Rainfall below one standard deviation of its long-run average causes food consumption to decrease by about 4 percent, when compared with rainfall within one standard deviation. Positive deviations above one standard deviation have a limited impact. Moreover, for households close to a highway or to a fixed-line phone, consumption appears to be fully protected from the impact of negative rainfall shocks. ER -