Welfare impacts of improved chickpea adoption
A pathway for rural development in Ethiopia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11931370 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simone Verkaart (0000-0002-6246-1094, Wageningen University & Research, corresponding author), Bernard Munyua (0000-0002-2290-8381, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics), Bernard G Munyua, Kai Mausch (0000-0002-2962-7646, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics), Jeffrey D Michler (0000-0001-7778-8703, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Pages | 50-61 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Food Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-9192 • E-ISSN: 1873-5657 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.foodpol.2016.11.007 |
| PMID | 28148997 |
| OpenAlex | W2528267702 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 39 |
| References cited | 41 |
We analyse the impact of improved chickpea adoption on welfare in Ethiopia using three rounds of panel data. First, we estimate the determinants of improved chickpea adoption using a double hurdle model. We apply a control function approach with correlated random effects to control for possible endogeneity resulting from access to improved seed and technology transfer activities. To instrument for these variables we develop novel distance weighted measures of a household's neighbours' access to improved seed and technology transfer activities. Second, we estimate the impact of area under improved chickpea cultivation on household income and poverty. We apply a fixed effects instrumental variables approach where we use the predicted area under cultivation from the double hurdle model as an instrument for observed area under cultivation. We find that improved chickpea adoption significantly increases household income while also reducing household poverty. Finally, we disaggregate results by landholding to explore whether the impact of adoption has heterogeneous effects. Adoption favoured all but the largest landholders, for who the new technology did not have a significant impact on income. Overall, increasing access to improved chickpea appears a promising pathway for rural development in Ethiopia's chickpea growing regions
Agricultural economics · Business · Control (management · Control function · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Endogeneity · Geography · Household income · Impact evaluation · Instrumental variable · Panel data · Poverty · Statistics · Welfare · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Agricultural pest management studies · Livestock and Poultry Management · Mathematics
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