Structural and institutional heterogeneity among agricultural cooperatives in Ethiopia : does it matter for farmers' welfare?
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- Tafesse W. Gezahegn, Steven Van Passel, Tekeste Berhanu, Marijke D'Haese (UGent) and Miet Maertens
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- This paper analyzes how structural and institutional heterogeneity among irrigation cooperatives shapes the impact of membership on farmers' welfare in northern Ethiopia, using a novel heteroskedasticity-based identification strategy. More specifically, we estimate how cooperative characteristics influence members' income and poverty level. We find that stricter water use regulations have income-enhancing and poverty-reducing effects for farmers. We also find that farmers benefit more from membership in larger, younger, and bottom-up cooperatives initiated through grassroots collective action. Our findings have implications for irrigation development in Ethiopia and call for a better deliberation of organizational heterogeneity in cooperative impact studies
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- heteroskedasticity-based identification, household welfare, irrigation, organizational heterogeneity, COLLECTIVE ACTION, TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION, EMPIRICAL-EVIDENCE, POVERTY REDUCTION, IRRIGATION, SMALLHOLDERS, MEMBERSHIP, IMPACTS, PERFORMANCE, DETERMINANTS
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8729178
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- Gezahegn, Tafesse W., et al. “Structural and Institutional Heterogeneity among Agricultural Cooperatives in Ethiopia : Does It Matter for Farmers’ Welfare?” JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS, vol. 46, no. 2, 2021, pp. 325–42, doi:10.22004/ag.econ.304767.
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- Gezahegn, T. W., Van Passel, S., Berhanu, T., D’Haese, M., & Maertens, M. (2021). Structural and institutional heterogeneity among agricultural cooperatives in Ethiopia : does it matter for farmers’ welfare? JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS, 46(2), 325–342. https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.304767
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- Gezahegn, Tafesse W., Steven Van Passel, Tekeste Berhanu, Marijke D’Haese, and Miet Maertens. 2021. “Structural and Institutional Heterogeneity among Agricultural Cooperatives in Ethiopia : Does It Matter for Farmers’ Welfare?” JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS 46 (2): 325–42. https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.304767.
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- Gezahegn, Tafesse W., Steven Van Passel, Tekeste Berhanu, Marijke D’Haese, and Miet Maertens. 2021. “Structural and Institutional Heterogeneity among Agricultural Cooperatives in Ethiopia : Does It Matter for Farmers’ Welfare?” JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS 46 (2): 325–342. doi:10.22004/ag.econ.304767.
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- 1.Gezahegn TW, Van Passel S, Berhanu T, D’Haese M, Maertens M. Structural and institutional heterogeneity among agricultural cooperatives in Ethiopia : does it matter for farmers’ welfare? JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS. 2021;46(2):325–42.
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- [1]T. W. Gezahegn, S. Van Passel, T. Berhanu, M. D’Haese, and M. Maertens, “Structural and institutional heterogeneity among agricultural cooperatives in Ethiopia : does it matter for farmers’ welfare?,” JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 325–342, 2021.
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title = {{Structural and institutional heterogeneity among agricultural cooperatives in Ethiopia : does it matter for farmers' welfare?}},
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