Does cooperative membership improve household welfare? Evidence from apple farmers in China

Ma, Wanglin; Abdulai, Awudu

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.12.002

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“…Aligning the conditions of informal contracts with farmers' preference for when to be paid could help improve farmers' loyalty to such contracts. This, in turn, could allow aggregators to operate more effectively and realize economies of scale, an important consideration for increasing agricultural incomes and productivity (Ashraf, Giné, and Karlan, 2009;Bellemare, 2012;Verhofstadt and Maertens, 2014;Ma and Abdulai, 2016).…”

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Intertemporal Choice and Income Regularity: Non-Fungibility in a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

Kramer¹,

Kunst²

2018

SSRN Journal

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This paper tests whether the choice of when to be paid depends on the income type. A labin-the-field experiment in Kenya asked dairy cooperative members to allocate both an irregular windfall and their regular milk payments between two dates. Participants allocated the windfall to the earlier of the two dates, in line with theory, but allocated milk payments to the later date. Survey evidence suggests that allocations of regular dairy income were significantly more patient because farmers earmarked milk payments, but not the irregular windfall, for bulky expenditures. Given that compliance with informal contracts depends on whether the timing of payment aligns with recipient preferences, these findings have implications for contract design in rural value chains.JEL: D03, Q13, O12.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Intertemporal Choice and Income Regularity: Non-Fungibility in a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

Kramer¹,

Kunst²

2018

SSRN Journal

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“…However, a separate regression with the estimated treatment effect as the outcome variable revealed a significant positive impact of age, education, and particularly farm size, which indicated a heterogeneous impact of cooperative membership. Using switching regression as opposed to propensity score matching, Ma and Abdulai () estimated a treatment effect of 4.66 per cent on the household income of apple producers in China. Like Ito et al.…”

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A Review of the Empirical Literature on Farmer Cooperatives: Performance, Ownership and Governance, Finance, and Member Attitude

Grashuis

2018

Ann Public Coop Econ

149

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The empirical literature on farmer cooperatives is now fast emerging and developing in the areas of performance, ownership and governance, finance, and member attitude. We discuss 56 peer‐reviewed publications to illustrate the main findings and conclusions while outlining challenges and opportunities for future research. Generally, cooperative membership is found to positively impact price, yield, input adoption, income, and other indicators of member performance, yet there is growing evidence of an uneven distribution of benefits for small and large producers. In terms of structure, evidence of a causal relationship of ownership and governance to performance has been elusive, yet there are now many findings of inherent equity and long‐term debt constraints, often in the context of consolidation to drive scale and scope economies. Further inefficiency is observed to be driven by increased heterogeneity in member attitudes and objectives, in particular in terms of commitment and participation. Thus, overall, empirical work portrays farmer cooperatives as flawed and complex business organizations which nonetheless have a strong positive impact on its members. While applied research may progress in various directions, a general improvement in empirical methodologies is needed to allow robust analysis of mixed objectives in dynamic environments.

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“…However, this technique only works if the difference between the two groups can be captured by using only observable variables. If there are unobservable characteristics, which can influence adoption decisions and the outcome variable, the result from the PSM is likely to be biased (Ma and Abdulai 2016).…”

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The Impact of improved maize varieties on farm productivity and wellbeing: evidence from the East Hararghe Zone of Ethiopia

Ahmed

Geleta

Tazeze

et al. 2017

Development Studies Research

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The aim of this study is to measure the impact of improved maize varieties on farm productivity and smallholders' wellbeing using data collected from the East Hararghe Zone of Ethiopia. We combined propensity score matching method with endogenous switching regression to estimate the impact on the welfare of farmers and we applied the stochastic frontier corrected for sample selection to measure the impact on farm productivity. The results show that adoption of improved maize varieties leads to significant gains in wellbeing and improves farm productivity. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Does cooperative membership improve household welfare? Evidence from apple farmers in China

Cited by 343 publications

References 23 publications

Intertemporal Choice and Income Regularity: Non-Fungibility in a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

Intertemporal Choice and Income Regularity: Non-Fungibility in a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

A Review of the Empirical Literature on Farmer Cooperatives: Performance, Ownership and Governance, Finance, and Member Attitude

The Impact of improved maize varieties on farm productivity and wellbeing: evidence from the East Hararghe Zone of Ethiopia

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