Estimating the impact of agricultural cooperatives in Senegal: Propensity score matching and endogenous switching regression analysis

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The recent renaissance of the Senegalese cooperative movement coupled with the revival of the agricultural sector motivated this study, which mainly aims to analyse the impact of farmer-based organization membership on household land productivity and net income. We combined the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method with an Endogenous Switching Regression (ESR) model to derive treatment effects of membership in these farmer organizations using national household-level survey data. Results exhibit consistency across estimations techniques. Estimates of both ESR and PSM models showed that membership in farmer organizations affects positively and significantly the household land productivity and net income. Moreover, findings show that membership has a heterogeneous impact. Households with the lowest probability to be members of farmer organizations have the highest impact. The effect of membership depends also on the specific type of organization.

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• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Papers of Agricultural Policy ; No. WP2020-10

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness ; Microeconomic Policy: Formulation, Implementation, and Evaluation ; Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment ; Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
• Subject: Farmer organizations ; impact evaluation ; land productivity ; household income ; Senegal

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Adjin, K. Christophe ; Goundan, Anatole ; Henning, Christian H. C. A. ; Sarr, Saer
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Kiel University, Department of Agricultural Economics, Chair of Agricultural Policy
• (where): Kiel
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/235900
• URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:8:3-2021-00299-3