In this paper, we compare experimentally measured individual risk attitudes and survey-based risk items for rural households in the province of Dak Lak in Southern Vietnam. In particular, we test whether the survey-based measure can be validated by a risk experiment among different ethnic...

We analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty reduction was especially successful. Thailand and Viet Nam are two emerging market economies where poverty rates are now below 10% and are declining further. Despite this success, it is not...

The Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) was introduced as a mandatory sustainability standard for large oil palm producers in 2011. While these standards are voluntary for smallholder farmers, some of their crop management practices may converge with ISPO principles. Hence, this study...

Diese Arbeit konzentriert sich auf die Rolle von Risikopräferenzen, Anreizen und Governance-Strukturen beim Einsatz von Pestiziden in der Gemüseproduktion in China. Das erste Kapitel stellt den allgemeinen Hintergrund der Dissertation und die wichtigsten Forschungsfragen der Studie vor....