Hermann Waibel

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the costs of compliance, factors explaining the smallholder decision to adopt EU private quality standards, and the impacts of the standards on farm financial performance, and developed a 2-stage standard treatment effect model to account for self-selection as a source of endogeneity.

TL;DR: In this article, a survey-based measure of general risk attitude with an incentive compatible experiment with more than 900 participants in rural Thailand is presented, and the survey measure of self-assessed risk attitude provides a useful approximation of the experimentally derived risk attitude.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of adoption of European Union (EU) private-sector standards on farmers' health in rural Kenya was evaluated using cross-sectional farm household-level data collected in 2006 from a randomly selected sample of 439 small-scale export farmers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of European Union (EU) private food safety standards on pesticide use and farm-level productivity among small-scale vegetable producers in Kenya is analyzed. But, contrary to findings elsewhere, the econometric evidence here shows that both domestic and export-oriented vegetable farmers in Kenya use pesticides at levels below the economic optimum.

TL;DR: In this article, an economic analysis of Bt cotton production by small-scale farmers in China is presented. But, the authors focus on the impact assessment of crop biotechnology and identify market and institutional failure as possible reasons for continued high pesticide use.