This paper examines the impacts of access to extension services and cooperative membership on technology adoption, asset ownership and poverty using household-level data from rural Nigeria. Using different matching techniques and endogenous switching regression approach, we find that both extensi...
Assfaw Wossen, Tesfamicheal
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Alene, A.
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Haile, M.G.
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Feleke, S.
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Olanrewaju, A.S.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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[Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare]
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Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare
This study measured the impacts of drought tolerant maize varieties (DTMVs) on productivity, welfare, and risk exposure using household and plot-level data from rural Nigeria. The study employed an endogenous switching regression approach to control for both observed and unobserved sources of het...
Assfaw Wossen, Tesfamicheal
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Alene, A.
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Feleke, S.
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Menkir, A.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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[Measuring the impacts of adaptation strategies to drought stress: the case of drought tolerant maize varieties]
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Measuring the impacts of adaptation strategies to drought stress: the case of drought tolerant maize varieties
In an attempt to go beyond the so called “smart” subsidies, Nigeria has embarked on a potentially innovative mobile phone-based input subsidy program that provides fertilizer and improved seed subsidies through electronic vouchers. In this article, we examined the productivity and welfare effects...
Wossen, T.
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Alene, A.
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Feleke, S.
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Ricker-Gilbert, J.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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Awotide, B.A.
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[Productivity and welfare effects of Nigeria's e-voucher-based input subsidy program]
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Productivity and welfare effects of Nigeria's e-voucher-based input subsidy program
Previous studies on the adoption and impacts of improved crop varieties have relied on self-reported adoption status of the surveyed households. However, in the presence of weak variety maintenance and poorly functioning seed certification system, measurement errors in self-reported adoption stat...
Assfaw Wossen, Tesfamicheal
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Alene, A.
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Feleke, S.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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[Agricultural technology adoption and household welfare: measurement and evidence]
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Agricultural technology adoption and household welfare: measurement and evidence