Choices, constraints and welfare in rural Peru

Abstract

This thesis is a study of farm household choices, constraints and welfare in rural Peru, for 1994. The study incorporates literature reviews of farm household models and the main results concerning off-farm participation for developed and developing countries. There is also a review of the Collective utility model, as well as much shorter reviews of the literatures on separability in labour allocation and on Data Envelopment Analysis. The data used is from the 1994 Living Standards Measurement survey, conducted by the World Bank. Four sets of econometric or programming models are estimated, using a sample of about 1000 farm households.