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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationFrederiksberg
PublisherDepartment of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen
Number of pages47
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2013
SeriesIFRO Working Paper
Number19
Volume2013

Bibliographical note

JEL classification: Q13, Q18, D02, D13, D31

Keywords

  • Faculty of Social Sciences
  • food standards
  • pangasius
  • instrumental variable
  • quantile regression
  • Vietnam
  • Asia

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