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Made available in DSpace on 2012-09-18T21:19:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 Moylan_Heather.pdf: 1073909 bytes, checksum: 9b7b94e2652023b0e78d813f5ae74161 (MD5) license.txt: 4064 bytes, checksum: 88debf52cecb8eebc9c463a6a0992b0e (MD5) Moylan_Heather.docx: 361261 bytes, checksum: 9f76e3283afd2534010d20adb16c3f66 (MD5) Arends-Kuenning, Mary P. Moylan, Heather 2012-09-18T21:19:29Z 2012-09-18T21:19:29Z 2014-09-18T10:00:47Z 2012-08 2012-09-18T21:19:29Z 2012-08 This thesis uses Malawi’s Third Integrated Household Survey 2010 – 2011 combined with improved rainfall estimates from a 30-year time series to create an objectively measured drought index. I first estimate the impact of this severe negative rainfall shock, defined as precipitation levels during the reference season of interest more than twenty percent less than the long-run median, on numerous indicators of agricultural production and household welfare. I then examine the extent to which households are able to mitigate the impact of a negative rainfall shock through a variety of plot and household-level characteristics. Findings reveal that households experiencing a severe negative rainfall shock during the wettest quarter of the 2008/2009 or 2009/2010 agricultural seasons, on average, suffered from significantly lower maize yields, values of agricultural output, total per capita consumption expenditures, food expenditures and dietary diversity. Households that planted tobacco as the primary crop, were located in a tropic-cool/semiarid agroecological zone or had access to credit appeared better able to protect their agricultural production and consumption levels from the negative impact of the rainfall shortage. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2012-07-19T18:13:07Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Moylan_Heather.docx: 360960 bytes, checksum: 2a3e0327c318274174192f0eb75cc73e (MD5) Moylan_Heather.pdf: 1073887 bytes, checksum: 48213921c310980cf98b91e08be22f64 (MD5) Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:35:09-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: 2014-09-18 16:21:01 UTC Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Seth Robbins (srobbins@illinois.edu) on 2012-09-18T21:21:15Z Item is restricted until 2014-09-18T21:21:01Z U of I Only Restriction Lifted for Item 34761 on 2014-09-18T10:00:47Z. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/34487 en Copyright 2012 Heather Moylan Malawi rainfall agricultural production household welfare The impact of rainfall variability on agricultural production and household welfare in rural Malawi Agr & Consumer Economics 1470 Agricultural & Applied Econ 5273 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S. MS: Agr & Applied Econ - UIUC 10KS5273MS