The impact of agricultural extension and roads on poverty and consumption growth in fifteen Ethiopian villages
This paper investigates whether public investments that led to improvements in road quality and increased access to agricultural extension services led to faster consumption growth and lower rates of poverty in rural Ethiopia. Estimating an instrumental variables model using Generalized Methods of M...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2008
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| author | Dercon, Stefan Gilligan, Daniel O. Hoddinott, John F. Woldehanna, Tassew |
| author_browse | Dercon, Stefan Gilligan, Daniel O. Hoddinott, John F. Woldehanna, Tassew |
| author_facet | Dercon, Stefan Gilligan, Daniel O. Hoddinott, John F. Woldehanna, Tassew |
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| description | This paper investigates whether public investments that led to improvements in road quality and increased access to agricultural extension services led to faster consumption growth and lower rates of poverty in rural Ethiopia. Estimating an instrumental variables model using Generalized Methods of Moments and controlling for household fixed effects, we find evidence of positive impacts with meaningful magnitudes. Receiving at least one extension visit reduces headcount poverty by 9.8 percentage points and increases consumption growth by 7.1 percent. Access to all-weather roads reduces poverty by 6.9 percentage points and increases consumption growth by 16.3 percent. These results are robust to changes in model specification and estimation methods. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1616982025-11-06T07:22:34Z The impact of agricultural extension and roads on poverty and consumption growth in fifteen Ethiopian villages Dercon, Stefan Gilligan, Daniel O. Hoddinott, John F. Woldehanna, Tassew public expenditure roads agricultural extension income generation poverty consumption functions metadata impact assessment This paper investigates whether public investments that led to improvements in road quality and increased access to agricultural extension services led to faster consumption growth and lower rates of poverty in rural Ethiopia. Estimating an instrumental variables model using Generalized Methods of Moments and controlling for household fixed effects, we find evidence of positive impacts with meaningful magnitudes. Receiving at least one extension visit reduces headcount poverty by 9.8 percentage points and increases consumption growth by 7.1 percent. Access to all-weather roads reduces poverty by 6.9 percentage points and increases consumption growth by 16.3 percent. These results are robust to changes in model specification and estimation methods. 2008 2024-11-21T09:57:27Z 2024-11-21T09:57:27Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161698 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Dercon, Stefan; Gilligan, Daniel O.; Hoddinott, John F.; Woldehanna, Tassew. 2008. The impact of agricultural extension and roads on poverty and consumption growth in fifteen Ethiopian villages. IFPRI Discussion Paper 840. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161698 |
| spellingShingle | public expenditure roads agricultural extension income generation poverty consumption functions metadata impact assessment Dercon, Stefan Gilligan, Daniel O. Hoddinott, John F. Woldehanna, Tassew The impact of agricultural extension and roads on poverty and consumption growth in fifteen Ethiopian villages |
| title | The impact of agricultural extension and roads on poverty and consumption growth in fifteen Ethiopian villages |
| title_full | The impact of agricultural extension and roads on poverty and consumption growth in fifteen Ethiopian villages |
| title_fullStr | The impact of agricultural extension and roads on poverty and consumption growth in fifteen Ethiopian villages |
| title_full_unstemmed | The impact of agricultural extension and roads on poverty and consumption growth in fifteen Ethiopian villages |
| title_short | The impact of agricultural extension and roads on poverty and consumption growth in fifteen Ethiopian villages |
| title_sort | impact of agricultural extension and roads on poverty and consumption growth in fifteen ethiopian villages |
| topic | public expenditure roads agricultural extension income generation poverty consumption functions metadata impact assessment |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161698 |
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