Climate Shocks, Household Resource Allocation, and Vulnerability to Poverty

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The article is aimed at studying the impact of climate shocks on the vulnerability of farming households to poverty and the mechanism for distributing household resources in this process, which is an urgent task that can lead to optimization of poverty forecasting. Excellent work has been done, which is of value to science, but despite the relevance of the article, some questions arose. Therefore, I recommend making minor changes.

Key comments:

1. It is not clear from the article whether the proposed model can be scaled, for example, to one province or vice versa to a region that includes several countries.

2. The abstract states "The paper finally concludes and discusses some policy implications". It needs to be clarified which ones.

3. In Results, the first paragraph (lines 192-194) should be deleted.

4. It is required to double-check the text for typos (lines 42, 51, 52, 54, 63 etc.)

5. The References does not appear to be in the same format.

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Reviewer 2 Report

Thank you for allowing me to study this manuscript "Climate Shocks, Household Resource Allocation and Vulnera-bility to Poverty". As a result, in my perspective, i found some points to improve the quality of the research. In this regard, following suggestions should be addressed.

General Comments: The topic of research is very interesting , but authors should compile the methodology section in such a way that can facilitate the readers. The presentation of results also can be improved. 

Line 111 and 112: author should explain clearly this sampling design, its benefits to use, and its procedure.

In line 122 what dose it means of advance climate change adaptation.

Line 131 and 132: author should describe those observable variables and shock that used in regression.

In Poverty Vulnerability measure needs more explanation of probability of future income, How it was estimated

 

In line 141: what dose authors want to explain “out of Poverty” at the end of sentence.   

Line 139 -142: the sentence should be divided into small sentences with more clear meaning what actually authors want to say. For example, the farm household income estimated with the household income per capita. What dose authors should only focusing the farm income or it explains the income of farm households.….if it is income of farm households then it may be better to write only household income because already it is explained that the sample consisted of farmer households to avoid any confusion. Moreover, why per capita income is used as explanatory variable here to estimate the household income.

 

Equation 3 to equation 4 needs more explanation. Authors should write in more detail how they estimated and future per capita income. In equation 4 what does mean “lnpoor”.

 

 

Table 1: what is about climate shocks index in 2018.

 

Section 3.1.1. Author should also explain why the some provinces first have high climate shock index value and then it decreases extensively in 2016.

 

Moreover, authors should write first the meaning of index tends to 0 and meaning of index tends to highest value in the start of the section 3.1.1

 

Figure 3 to figure 6: The units of variables should be mentioned if possible.

 

Table 2 lacks the explanation. There are values of many variables to be interpreted.

Line 242: Table number should be re-checked.

Line 251: word “Characteristics” should be removed

 

Author should explain that the Climate shock data is available up to 2016 and poverty vulnerability data is available up to 2018.

Author should check the table number in the manuscript thoroughly, and these should be matched with tables number just before the table.

Line 349: value 0.3588 I could not find in table….

Line 353: author should re-check the sentence and re-write it.

Table 6: The column name should be written according the explanation given in text about the effect of the variables.

 Best of Luck

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