Food Standards are Good – for Middle-Class Farmers
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Food Standards are Good – for Middle-Class Farmers. / Hansen, Henrik; Trifkovic, Neda.
I: World Development, Bind 56, 04.2014, s. 226-242.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Food Standards are Good – for Middle-Class Farmers
AU - Hansen, Henrik
AU - Trifkovic, Neda
PY - 2014/4
Y1 - 2014/4
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 - Vietnam
KW - Asia
U2 - 10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.10.027.
DO - 10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.10.027.
M3 - Journal article
VL - 56
SP - 226
EP - 242
JO - World Development
JF - World Development
SN - 1873-5991
ER -
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