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Janzen, Sarah Michelson, Hope Winter-Nelson, Alex 2022-05 application/pdf en text Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms The student, Kierstin Ekstrom, accepted the attached license on 2022-04-21 at 13:47. The student, Kierstin Ekstrom, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2022-04-21 at 14:08. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2022-04-27 at 16:56. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #17884 on 2022-11-11 at 13:42:49 Resilience in the midst of a pandemic: A study of a livelihoods program in rural Nepal Ekstrom, Kierstin 2022-04-27 Nepal resilience poverty Covid-19 pandemic vulnerability livestock goats savings loans debt coping coping strategies ex-ante ex-post shocks covariate idiosyncratic development household South Asia impact evaluation lockdown personal savings consumption smoothing asset smoothing The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the vulnerable rural poor through direct shocks to health and disruptions to rural livelihoods. We use household level panel data from Nepal to examine the coping strategies used in the first 18 months of the pandemic, with focus on the four months of government mandated national lockdown. Households were more likely to turn to coping strategies during the national lockdown, most frequently taking on a loan, selling livestock or using savings. Previous randomized implementation of a Heifer International productive asset transfer and training program allows us to examine the long term effect of these types of programs on resilience. Program beneficiaries are more likely to sell livestock and less likely to take on loans during the national lockdown than non-beneficiaries. As beneficiaries are more likely to have any and more savings than non-beneficiaries, the program participation moves households towards sustainable and less onerous coping strategies. Thesis eng https://hdl.handle.net/2142/115424 Copyright 2022 Kierstin Ekstrom M.S. Thesis Agricultural & Applied Econ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Agr & Consumer Economics