Data and Code for Climate Change and Agriculture: Subsistence Farmers’ Response to Extreme Heat

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Juan Pablo Rud, Royal Holloway, University of London; Fernando Aragon, Simon Fraser University; Francisco Oteiza, Oslo Economics

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Project Citation:

Rud, Juan Pablo, Aragon, Fernando , and Oteiza, Francisco. Data and Code for Climate Change and Agriculture: Subsistence Farmers’ Response to Extreme Heat. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2021. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-01-28. https://doi.org/10.3886/E117742V1

Project Description

Summary: This paper examines how subsistence farmers respond to extreme heat. Using micro-data from Peruvian households, we find that high temperatures reduce agricultural productivity, increase area planted, and change crop mix. These findings are consistent with farmers using input adjustments as a short-term mechanism to attenuate the effect of extreme heat on output. This response seems to complement other coping strategies, such as selling livestock, but exacerbates the drop in yields, a standard measure of agricultural productivity. Using our estimates, we show that accounting for land adjustments is important to quantify damages associated with climate change.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: climate change; economic development; agricultural productivity

JEL Classification:
      O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
      O13 Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
      Q12 Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
      Q54 Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming

Geographic Coverage: Peru

Time Period(s): 2005 – 2017

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