Household Welfare and the Pricing of Cocoa and Coffee in Côte d'Ivoire: Lessons from the Living Standards Surveys
利用1985年生活水平调查数据，估计生产者价格变动对科特迪瓦家庭福利的影响，发现降价虽使许多家庭收入受损，但不会恶化收入分配，因为种植户多集中在中收入阶层。
Cocoa and coffee are the most important crops in Côte d'Ivoire. Until recently, the difference between world and administered producer prices provided an important source of government revenue. As a result of a continued decline of world prices of both crops, however, the Ivoirien government was forced to cut producer prices in half. Because 40 percent of Ivoirien households grow either cocoa or coffee, this cut can be expected to have a considerable impact on the welfare level of these households. We use the 1985 Living Standards Measurement Survey to estimate the welfare effects of producer price changes for Ivoirien households, permitting an evaluation of the probable consequences of the recent price cut. Using nonparametric econometric techniques, we find that, although many households will suffer losses of income, the cuts will not have adverse distributional effects: cocoa and coffee farmers are scattered throughout the income distribution, but most are concentrated in the middle.