Tobacco or not tobacco: predicting farming households' income in Indonesia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent research in several countries has demonstrated that small-holder tobacco farming is typically not a profitable enterprise. Many farming households report losing money in this economic endeavour, even without incorporating the value of their household labour. Losses are typically considerably worse when household labour is considered. We take advantage of panel data that include information about both current and former tobacco farming households' characteristics and economic decisions to be the first to rigorously estimate the effects of both tobacco and non-tobacco farming on income.

Methods

We designed and implemented a two-wave economic survey of current and former tobacco farming households in Indonesia's two largest tobacco-growing regions. We use regr

SUBMITTER: Sahadewo GA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10444206 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature