Commodity Prices and Intra‐Household Labor Allocation
利用越南咖啡种植户的长期面板数据，研究发现国际咖啡价格下跌时，家庭通过增加成人工资劳动、儿童和青少年替代成人从事农场劳动来应对，且女性、少数民族和资产较少的家庭替代模式更明显。
Abstract Volatility in commodity markets poses a distinct 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 Vietnam to investigate coping mechanisms employed by farmers in a transitioning economy. We find that households cope with lower coffee prices by increasing wage labor of adults, with children and adolescents substituting for adults on the farm. Heterogeneity analysis indicates a stronger substitution pattern among women, ethnic minorities, and households with fewer assets. A variety of robustness checks corroborate these findings. Account of this finding should be taken in formulating and implementing social protection and inclusive growth policies.