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Title | Sales location and supply response among semisubsistence farmers in Benin |
Subtitle | A heteroskedastic double selection model |
Author |
Takeshima, Hiroyuki Winter-Nelson, Alex |
ORCID | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1761-408X Takeshima, Hiroyuki |
Year | 2010 |
Abstract | In much of rural Africa, high transaction costs limit farmers' market participation and thus their potential for income growth. Transaction costs can affect not only whether a farmer sells product but also whether sales occur at the farm gate on at a market. If production behavior is related to a chosen sales location, then analysis of interventions can be improved by explicit consideration of the decision of where to sell. This paper develops a double-selection model that explains consumption and production decisions by semi-subsistence farmers who first decide whether to be a seller and then whether to sell at the farm gate or at an off-farm location before deciding on production and consumption. The study tests the validity of this dual-criteria model against a single criterion model in which a grower first decides to be a seller and then decides production, consumption and sales location simultaneously. Dual-criteria and single-criterion models are compared while correcting inconsistency in estimations due to violation of homoskedasticity and normality assumptions in selection equations. The results suggest that the dual-criteria model provides more information than the single-criterion model using a sample of cassava producer in Benin. |
Series Name | IFPRI Discussion Paper |
Series Number | 999 |
Publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) |
Place of publication | Washington, D.C. |
Language | English |
Record Type | Discussion paper |
Peer Reviewed - PR or Non-PR | Non-PR |
Subject - country location |
BENIN WEST AFRICA AFRICA |
Subject - keywords |
agricultural supply response Development strategies dual-criteria sales location Transaction costs Agricultural Growth and Technologies |
IFPRI Descriptors |
IFPRI1 GRP32 |
IFPRI Division | DSGD |
Access Rights | Open Access |
LOC call number | IFPRIDP00999 |
Physical description | 26 pages |
IFPRI Web link | http://www.ifpri.org/publication/sales-location-and-supply-response-among-semisubsistence-farmers-benin |
RePEc Downloads | https://ideas.repec.org/p/fpr/ifprid/999.html |
Requests | mailto:ifpri-library@cgiar.org |
CONTENTdm file name | 2837.cpd |
Date cataloged | 2017-08-08 |
Date modified | 2017-08-08 |
OCLC number | 778453210 |
CONTENTdm number | 2836 |
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Access Rights | Open Access |
CONTENTdm file name | 2830.pdfpage |
Date cataloged | 2017-08-08 |
Date modified | 2017-08-08 |
CONTENTdm number | 2829 |
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