Although it may be wholly inappropriate to generalize, the most important resource available to a subsistence household is the total amount of time that its members have available to spend in productive enterprises. In this context, services that minimize the time that it takes to perform product...
Holloway, G.J.
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Ehui, Simeon K.
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[Demand, supply and willingness-to-pay for extension services in an emerging-market setting]
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Demand, supply and willingness-to-pay for extension services in an emerging-market setting
Some small-holders are able to generate reliable and substantial income flows through small-scale dairy production for the local market; for others, a set of unique transaction costs hinders participation. Cooperative selling institutions are potential catalysts for mitigating these costs, stimul...
Holloway, G.J.
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Nicholson, C.
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Delgado, Christopher L.
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Staal, Steven J.
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Ehui, Simeon K.
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[Agroindustrialization through institutional innovation. Transaction costs, cooperatives and milk-market development in the East-African highlands]
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Agroindustrialization through institutional innovation. Transaction costs, cooperatives and milk-market development in the East-African highlands
Data augmentation is a powerful technique for estimating models with latent or missing data, but applications in agricultural economics have thus far been few. This paper showcases the technique in an application to data on milk market participation in the Ethiopian highlands. There, a key impedi...
Holloway, G.J.
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Dorfman, J.H
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Ehui, Simeon K.
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[Tobit estimation with unknown point of censoring with an application to milk-market participation in the Ethiopian highlands]
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Tobit estimation with unknown point of censoring with an application to milk-market participation in the Ethiopian highlands
Nin Pratt, A.
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Bonnet, P.
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Jabbar, M.A.
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Ehui, Simeon K.
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Haan, C. de
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[Benefits and costs of compliance of sanitary regulations in livestock markets: the case of Rift Valley fever in Ethiopia]
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Benefits and costs of compliance of sanitary regulations in livestock markets: the case of Rift Valley fever in Ethiopia
Cross bred cow adoption is an important and potent policy variable precipitating subsistence household entry into emerging bulk markets. This paper focuses on the design of policies that create and sustain milk-market expansion among a sample of households in the Ethiopian highlands. In this cont...