Journal
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
Volume 44, Issue 3, Pages 255-273Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/agec.12009
Keywords
C34; C9; D1; D81; Risk preference elicitation; Lottery choice task decision; Social capital; Vietnam
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through the collaborative research center [SFB 564]
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We examine the consistency of risk preference measures based on eight hypothetical elicitation methods and a lottery game applied to smallholder farmers in a marginal upland environment in Vietnam. Using these measures, we identify influencing factors of risk aversion via regression analysis, whereby unlike previous studies, we include several proxies of social capital such as social networks and norms. Data were collected from household heads and spouses separately in a random sample of 300 households. Although correlations between most of the various risk preference measures are all statistically highly significant, most are weak. On average, respondents have a high degree of risk aversion and specific characteristicsgender, age, idiosyncratic shocks, education, social norms, network-reliance with extended family, and connections to local authoritiesare significant determinants of risk preferences across most elicitation methods, whereas othersthe household's dependency ratio, wealth, and covariate shocksare significant in a few methods only. The explanatory power of the models is limited, indicating that other factors are likely to be of greater importance in determining risk preferences. The results can help target safety nets, encourage investments, and lead to the development of more applicable methods for assessing risk preferences of smallholders in developing countries.
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