Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/204366 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IFRO Working Paper No. 2013/19
Publisher: 
University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), Copenhagen
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.
Subjects: 
food standards
pangasius
instrumental variable
quantile regression
Vietnam
Asia
JEL: 
Q13
Q18
D02
D13
D31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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