Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/146207 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2016/16
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Volatility in commodity markets poses an acute risk to farmers in developing countries who rely on cash crop agriculture. We combine a time series of international coffee prices with a long-running panel on coffee-growing households in Viet Nam to investigate coping mechanisms employed by farmers in a transitioning economy. We find that households cope with lower coffee prices by increasing wage labour of adults with children and adolescents substituting for adults on the farm and in home production. Account should be taken of this finding in formulating and implementing social protection and inclusive growth policies.
Subjects: 
intra-household allocation
commodity prices
income shocks
labour supply
JEL: 
Q02
J22
O12
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-059-1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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