Does cooperative membership improve household welfare? Evidence from apple farmers in China
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- 作者：Wanglin Ma ; Awudu Abdulai ; aabdula@food-econ.uni-kiel.de" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author
- 关键词：Agricultural cooperatives ; Impact assessment ; Apple farmers ; China
- 刊名：Food Policy
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：January 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：58
- 期：Complete
- 页码：94-102
- 全文大小：322 K
文摘
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We examine the impact of cooperative membership on household welfare.
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We use cross-sectional data collected from apple farmers in China.
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Endogenous switching regression model is employed to address the selection bias issue.
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Cooperative membership exerts a positive and significant impact on apple yields.
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Cooperative membership has positive and significant impacts on net returns and household income.