Structural and institutional heterogeneity among agricultural cooperatives in Ethiopia : does it matter for farmers' welfare?
| Autor: | Gezahegn, Tafesse, Van Passel, Steven, Berhanu, Tekeste, D'Haese, Marijke, Maertens, Miet |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Agriculture and Food Sciences IMPACTS Economics EMPIRICAL-EVIDENCE SMALLHOLDERS DETERMINANTS PERFORMANCE POVERTY REDUCTION TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION irrigation FOS: Economics and business heteroskedasticity-based identification organizational heterogeneity COLLECTIVE ACTION Resource/Energy Economics and Policy MEMBERSHIP Biology household welfare |
| Zdroj: | Journal of agricultural and resource economics JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS |
| ISSN: | 1068-5502 2327-8285 |
| Popis: | This paper analyzes how structural and institutional heterogeneity among irrigation cooperatives shapes the impact of membership on farmers’ welfare in northern Ethiopia, using a novel heteroskedasticity-based identification strategy. More specifically, we estimate how cooperative characteristics influence members’ income and poverty level. We find that stricter water use regulations have income-enhancing and poverty-reducing effects for farmers. We also find that farmers benefit more from membership in larger, younger, and bottom-up cooperatives initiated through grassroots collective action. Our findings have implications for irrigation development in Ethiopia and call for a better deliberation of organizational heterogeneity in cooperative impact studies ispartof: Journal Of Agricultural And Resource Economics vol:46 issue:2 pages:325-342 status: published |
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