To Specialize or Diversify: Agricultural Diversity and Poverty Dynamics in Ethiopia
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- 作者：Jeffrey D. Michlera ; b ; Anna L. Josephsonc
- 关键词：crop diversity ; poverty ; control function approach ; dynamic binary response models ; rural Ethiopia
- 刊名：World Development
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：January 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：89
- 期：Complete
- 页码：214-226
- 全文大小：955 K
文摘
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We study the impact of crop diversity on poverty using panel data from Ethiopia.
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To control for endogeneity we use a recently developed dynamic binary response model.
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Crop diversity significantly reduces the probability of a household being in poverty.
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Results provide evidence on the increasingly common policy of crop diversification.