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dc.titleDroughts, Women and Indigenous People in Chile: Assessing the Impacts on Income and Employment
dc.contributor.authorPérez S., Rodrigo
dc.contributor.authorCastillo, Mayarí
dc.contributor.authorCazzuffi, Chiara
dc.contributor.orgunitDepartment of Research and Chief Economist
dc.coverageChile
dc.coverageChile
dc.date.available2023-11-13T00:11:00
dc.date.issue2023-11-13T00:11:00
dc.description.abstractClimate change is a pressing issue, affecting the lives of all people across the world. However, poorer and excluded communities are usually more affected, especially in low-income countries. Among them, women but particularly indigenous groups in rural areas seem to bear the bulk of the impacts produced by climate change and its many manifestations. We study the relationship between droughts and incomes and labor market outcomes in Chile over the period 1990-2017, focusing in particular on indigenous women. Our results show that overall indigenous women are the group most severely affected by droughts, decreasing their income, their probability of working in agriculture, and increasing their likelihood of working as an unpaid family worker or being out of the labor force. Results are robust to the use of different variables to measure droughts and to different econometric specifications. Our study corroborates the existence of marked heterogenous effects of climate change on different population groups and the vulnerability of indigenous communities to these shocks.
dc.format.extent39
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0005273
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Droughts-Women-and-Indigenous-People-in-Chile-Assessing-the-Impacts-on-Income-and-Employment.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectWater and Sanitation
dc.subjectDrought
dc.subjectClimate Change
dc.subjectLabor Force
dc.subjectRainfall
dc.subjectWomen
dc.subjectAgriculture and Food Security
dc.subjectIndigenous People
dc.subject.jelcodeE24 - Employment • Unemployment • Wages • Intergenerational Income Distribution • Aggregate Human Capital • Aggregate Labor Productivity
dc.subject.jelcodeI31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
dc.subject.jelcodeJ16 - Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination
dc.subject.jelcodeQ54 - Climate • Natural Disasters and Their Management • Global Warming
dc.subject.keywordsclimate change;women;Indigenous groups;Water scarcity;Chile;Droughts
dc.typeWorking Papers
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-WP-01506
idb.operationRG-K1198
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