Adoption and Impact of Improved Groundnut Varieties on Rural Poverty: Evidence from Rural Uganda
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Keywords
groundnut technology adoption; crop income; poverty alleviation; propensity score matching; switching regression; stochastic dominance; Rosenbaum bounds; Uganda;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C01 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - General - - - Econometrics
- C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- Q16 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - R&D; Agricultural Technology; Biofuels; Agricultural Extension Services
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2010-06-18 (Africa)
- NEP-AGR-2010-06-18 (Agricultural Economics)
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