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| Mullally, Conner. |
| This paper measures the impact of year one of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Rural Business Development program for small rice farming households on the Pacific Coast of Nicaragua. The program was rolled out in the 2009-2010 agricultural year, which was the driest year on record in the region, likely due to an El Niño event. Estimated impacts show that the program at best had no effect, and at worst led to a 10 percent reduction in yields. These impacts are estimated using an econometric model which uses selection on observables as its identifying assumption, and robustness checks suggest that this is a reasonable approach in this case. Inference accounts for spatial correlation across households of the unobserved determinants of agricultural... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Development; Impact evaluation; Agricultural extension; Rural credit; Spatial; International Development. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103799 |
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| Mullally, Conner. |
| Abstract: This essay is an evaluation of year one of the Rural Business Development (RBD) program for small rice farmers in León, Nicaragua. The RBD program is administered by the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and is designed to deliver agricultural extension advice and affordable credit in the form of inputs to farm households. This essay estimates the average impact of the program on rice yields and revenues utilizing inverse propensity score weighting combined with linear regression. In conducting statistical inference, it also accounts for the fact that agricultural outcomes are likely correlated over space in a small area such as the one studied here. The results suggest that the program had no impact on average, likely due to the presence of a... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Development; Agriculture; Extension; Credit; Spatial; Propensity score; International Development. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108498 |
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| Mullally, Conner. |
| This essay is an evaluation of year one of the Rural Business Development (RBD) program for small rice farmers in León, Nicaragua. The RBD program is administered by the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and is designed to deliver agricultural extension advice and affordable credit in the form of inputs to farm households. This essay estimates the average impact of the program on rice yields and revenues utilizing inverse propensity score weighting combined with linear regression. In conducting statistical inference, it also accounts for the fact that agricultural outcomes are likely correlated over space in a small area such as the one studied here. The results suggest that the program had no impact on average, likely due to the presence of a severe... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Development; Extension; Credit; Spatial; Impact evaluation; International Development. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108723 |
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| Mullally, Conner. |
| This essay is an evaluation of year one of the Rural Business Development (RBD) program for small rice farmers in León, Nicaragua. The RBD program is administered by the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and is designed to deliver agricultural extension advice and affordable credit in the form of inputs to farm households. This essay estimates the average impact of the program on rice yields and revenues utilizing inverse propensity score weighting combined with linear regression. In conducting statistical inference, it also accounts for the fact that agricultural outcomes are likely correlated over space in a small area such as the one studied here. The results suggest that the program had no impact on average, likely due to the presence of a severe... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Development; Program evaluation; Agricultural extension.; International Development. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/109664 |
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| Norton, Michael T.; Holthaus, Eric; Madajewicz, Malgosia; Osgood, Daniel E.; Peterson, Nicole; Gebremichael, Mengesha; Mullally, Conner; Teh, TseLing. |
| There is much interest in weather index insurance as a poverty‐mitigating tool, but concerns persist about potential demand for the product among the poorest of the poor. This paper relates the experiences in rural areas of Tigray region, Ethiopia through both commercial sign‐up data and a series of experimental games conducted to test demand for weather index insurance. Demand was observed to be considerable in both. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Risk and Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/104022 |
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