Arbeitspapier

Coffee price volatility and intra-household labour supply: Evidence from Viet Nam

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.

ISBN
978-92-9256-059-1
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2016/16

Classification
Wirtschaft
Commodity Markets
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Subject
intra-household allocation
commodity prices
income shocks
labour supply

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Beck, Ulrik
Singhal, Saurabh
Tarp, Finn
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(where)
Helsinki
(when)
2016

DOI
doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2016/059-1
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Beck, Ulrik
  • Singhal, Saurabh
  • Tarp, Finn
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Time of origin

  • 2016

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