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Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare

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 extension...

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Autores principales: Wossen, Tesfamicheal, Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Alene, Arega, Haile, Mekbib G., Feleke, Shiferaw, Olanrewaju, Adetunji, Manyong, Victor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pergamon 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5614096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28989229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.06.022
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author Wossen, Tesfamicheal
Abdoulaye, Tahirou
Alene, Arega
Haile, Mekbib G.
Feleke, Shiferaw
Olanrewaju, Adetunji
Manyong, Victor
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Haile, Mekbib G.
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description 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 extension access and cooperative membership have a positive and statistically significant effect on technology adoption and household welfare. Moreover, we find that both extension access and cooperative membership have heterogeneous impacts. In particular, we find evidence of a positive selection as the average treatment effects of extension access and cooperative membership are higher for farmers with the highest propensity to access extension and cooperative services. The impact of extension services on poverty reduction and of cooperatives on technology adoption is significantly stronger for smallholders with access to formal credit than for those without access. This implies that expanding rural financial markets can maximize the potential positive impacts of extension and cooperative services on farmers’ productivity and welfare.
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spelling pubmed-56140962017-10-05 Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare Wossen, Tesfamicheal Abdoulaye, Tahirou Alene, Arega Haile, Mekbib G. Feleke, Shiferaw Olanrewaju, Adetunji Manyong, Victor J Rural Stud Article 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 extension access and cooperative membership have a positive and statistically significant effect on technology adoption and household welfare. Moreover, we find that both extension access and cooperative membership have heterogeneous impacts. In particular, we find evidence of a positive selection as the average treatment effects of extension access and cooperative membership are higher for farmers with the highest propensity to access extension and cooperative services. The impact of extension services on poverty reduction and of cooperatives on technology adoption is significantly stronger for smallholders with access to formal credit than for those without access. This implies that expanding rural financial markets can maximize the potential positive impacts of extension and cooperative services on farmers’ productivity and welfare. Pergamon 2017-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5614096/ /pubmed/28989229 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.06.022 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Manyong, Victor
Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare
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title_short Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare
title_sort impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5614096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28989229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.06.022
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