Food Standards are Good– for Middle-class Farmers
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Food Standards are Good– for Middle-class Farmers. / Hansen, Henrik; Trifkovic, Neda.
Frederiksberg : Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, 2013.Publikation: Working paper › Forskning
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Food Standards are Good– for Middle-class Farmers
AU - Hansen, Henrik
AU - Trifkovic, Neda
N1 - JEL classification: Q13, Q18, D02, D13, D31
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - We estimate the causal effect of food standards on Vietnamese pangasius farmers’ wellbeing measured by per capita consumption expenditure. We estimate both the average effects and the local average treatment effects on poorer and richer farmers by instrumental variable quantile regression. Our results indicate that large returns can be accrued from food standards, but only for the upper middle-class farmers, i.e., those between the 50% and 85% quantiles of the expenditure distribution. Overall, our result points to an exclusionary impact of standards for the poorest farmers while the richest do not apply standards because the added gain is too small.
AB - We estimate the causal effect of food standards on Vietnamese pangasius farmers’ wellbeing measured by per capita consumption expenditure. We estimate both the average effects and the local average treatment effects on poorer and richer farmers by instrumental variable quantile regression. Our results indicate that large returns can be accrued from food standards, but only for the upper middle-class farmers, i.e., those between the 50% and 85% quantiles of the expenditure distribution. Overall, our result points to an exclusionary impact of standards for the poorest farmers while the richest do not apply standards because the added gain is too small.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - food standards
KW - pangasius
KW - instrumental variable
KW - quantile regression
KW - Vietnam
KW - Asia
M3 - Working paper
T3 - IFRO Working Paper
BT - Food Standards are Good– for Middle-class Farmers
PB - Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen
CY - Frederiksberg
ER -
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