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- Title
Can Agricultural Cooperatives Reduce Poverty? Heterogeneous Impact of Cooperative Membership on Farmers' Welfare in Rwanda.
- Authors
Verhofstadt, Ellen; Maertens, Miet
- Abstract
We analyze the inclusiveness and effectiveness of agricultural cooperatives in Rwanda. We estimate mean income and poverty effects of cooperative membership using propensity score matching techniques. We analyze heterogeneous treatment effects across farmers by analyzing how estimated treatment effects vary over farm and farmer characteristics and over the estimated propensity score. We find that cooperative membership in general increases income and reduces poverty and that these effects are largest for larger farms and in more remote areas. We find evidence of a negative selection because impact is largest for farmers with the lowest propensity to be a cooperative member.
- Subjects
RWANDA; COOPERATIVE agriculture research; POVERTY reduction; POVERTY; SERVICES for farmers; INDUSTRIAL welfare
- Publication
Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy, 2015, Vol 37, Issue 1, p86
- ISSN
2040-5790
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/aepp/ppu021