When Faced with Income and Asset Shocks, Do Poor Rural Households in Vietnam Smooth Food Consumption or Assets?

Giang Thi Hoang Nguyen, Ben White, Chunbo Ma

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Abstract

Vietnamese rural households are exposed to severe covariate and idiosyncratic shocks. However, these households are remarkably resilient and have steadily increased real income and consumption over the survey period 2006 to 2012. To explain household strategies to cope with shocks we test three theoretical models: the Permanent Income Hypothesis (PIH), Complete Market Hypothesis (CMH), and Asset Smoothing Theory (AST). There is support for AST as households smooth productive assets rather than consumption; and for CMH as households smooth consumption against idiosyncratic, but not covariate shocks. There is no support for PIH.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2008-2023
Number of pages16
JournalJournal of Development Studies
Volume55
Issue number9
Early online date19 Oct 2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Sept 2019

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