Les effets des changements climatiques sur les revenus des ménages en Afrique

Abstract

In this article, using qualitative econometrics, we studied the effects of climate change on household incomes in Africa. The results show that climate change has a negative effect on household incomes in Africa. Indeed, according to our results, the variables "drought" and "flood" have significant coefficients that influence the probability of having a cash income. These coefficients help to understand how each variable affects the likelihood of having cash income for a given household. For each unit increase in the "drought" variable, the cash income odds decrease by an average of 0.0399006. Households affected by drought have a slightly lower likelihood of having cash income. The odds of cash income decreases on average by 0.0414263, for each increase of one unit in the “flood” variable.