The effect of shocks on household consumption in rural Nigeria

• Main Authors: Abdulaziz, Shehu, Ahmad Sidique, Shaufique Fahmi
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: Australian Academy of Business and Social Sciences 2014
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/51597/1/The%20effect%20of%20shocks%20on%20household%20consumption%20in%20rural%20Nigeria.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/51597/; https://www.aabss.org.au/research-papers/effect-shocks-household-consumption-rural-nigeria

This paper examines the impact of both exogenous idiosyncratic and covariate shock events on the consumption of farm households in rural Nigeria by using an ordinary least square method. The result of the overall sample shows that whilst idiosyncratic and climatic shock have no significant effect on...