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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| author | Assfaw Wossen, Tesfamicheal Abdoulaye, Tahirou Alene, A. Haile, M.G. Feleke, S. Olanrewaju, A.S. Manyong, Victor M. |
| author_browse | Abdoulaye, Tahirou Alene, A. Assfaw Wossen, Tesfamicheal Feleke, S. Haile, M.G. Manyong, Victor M. Olanrewaju, A.S. |
| author_facet | Assfaw Wossen, Tesfamicheal Abdoulaye, Tahirou Alene, A. Haile, M.G. Feleke, S. Olanrewaju, A.S. Manyong, Victor M. |
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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 | CGSpace830822025-11-11T10:38:44Z Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare Assfaw Wossen, Tesfamicheal Abdoulaye, Tahirou Alene, A. Haile, M.G. Feleke, S. Olanrewaju, A.S. Manyong, Victor M. cooperatives adoption welfare impact evaluation extension access technology adoption smallholders 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. 2017-08 2017-08-14T10:23:28Z 2017-08-14T10:23:28Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/83082 en Open Access application/pdf Elsevier Assfaw Wossen, T., Abdoulaye, T., Alene, A., Haile, M.G., Feleke, S., Olanrewaju, A. & Manyong, V. (2017). Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare. Journal of Rural Studies, 54, 223-233. |
| spellingShingle | cooperatives adoption welfare impact evaluation extension access technology adoption smallholders Assfaw Wossen, Tesfamicheal Abdoulaye, Tahirou Alene, A. Haile, M.G. Feleke, S. Olanrewaju, A.S. Manyong, Victor M. Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare |
| title | Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare |
| title_full | Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare |
| title_fullStr | Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare |
| 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 |
| topic | cooperatives adoption welfare impact evaluation extension access technology adoption smallholders |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/83082 |
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