We evaluate the impact of affiliation to Fair Trade on a sample of Chilean honey producers. Evidence from standard regressions and propensity score matching shows that affiliated farmers have higher productivity (income from honey per worked hour) than the control sample. Additional results on the effects of affiliation on training, cooperation and advances on payments suggest that affiliation contributed both to, and independently from, the economies of scale effect. Therefore, we show that the productivity effect is partially explained by the superior capacity of affiliated workers to exploit economies of scale.
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Paper provided by Tor Vergata University, CEIS in its series CEIS Research Paper with number
141.
Length: 38 pages Date of creation: 30 Jun 2009 Date of revision:
30 Jun 2009 Handle: RePEc:rtv:ceisrp:141
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