Welfare impacts of improved chickpea adoption: A pathway for rural development in Ethiopia?

摘要: We analyse the impact of improved chickpea adoption on welfare in Ethiopia using three rounds panel data. First, we estimate determinants a double hurdle model. apply control function approach with correlated random effects to for possible endogeneity resulting from access seed and technology transfer activities. To instrument these variables develop novel distance weighted measures household’s neighbours’ Second, area under cultivation household income poverty. fixed instrumental where use predicted model as an observed cultivation. find that significantly increases while also reducing Finally, disaggregate results by landholding explore whether has heterogeneous effects. Adoption favoured all but largest landholders, who new did not have significant income. Overall, increasing appears promising pathway rural development Ethiopia’s growing regions.