Surry, Yves
- Institutionen för ekonomi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Sammanfattning
This article investigates how off-farm income affects crop output market participation decisions and marketed surplus of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia. A double-hurdle model is estimated using three waves of panel data from the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey. Unobserved heterogeneity is controlled for using a correlated random effect procedure and potential endogeneity of explanatory variables using a control function approach. The results show that off-farm income has no significant influence on household crop output market participation. However, conditional on market participation, additional off-farm earnings negatively affect the marketed surplus. This indicates that farmers use off-farm earnings for consumption rather than for investment in agricultural production. Policy measures that promote rural investment may help increase returns to labor for land-poor households participating in off-farm work in the process of agricultural commercialization.
Nyckelord
Double-hurdle; Endogeneity; Off-farm income; Smallholder commercialization; Ethiopia
Publicerad i
Agricultural Economics
2017, volym: 48, nummer: 2, sidor: 207-218
Utgivare: WILEY
SLU författare
Globala målen (SDG)
SDG8 Anständiga arbetsvillkor och ekonomisk tillväxt
UKÄ forskningsämne
Nationalekonomi
Publikationens identifierare
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12327
Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/82668