The Impact of Agricultural Extension and Roads on Poverty and Consumption Growth in Fifteen Ethiopian Villages

By Stefan Dercon, Daniel O. Gilligan, John Hoddinott, T. Woldehanna. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare (2017, background): “Similarly, Dercon et al. (2009) showed that agricultural extension improved household welfare by reducing the incidence of poverty in rural Ethiopia.”
Growth and Chronic Poverty: Evidence from Rural Communities in Ethiopia (2012, methodology): “Earlier work using these data and this framework include Dercon (2004) and Dercon et al. (2009).”
Agricultural Growth and Investment Options for Poverty Reduction in Rwanda (2010, unknown): “Further, the overall impact of access to all-season roads on fertilizer use appears to be insignificant, which is surprising given previous reports suggesting that access to roads can drastically reduce the cost (and thus increase the use) of modern inputs (Gregory and Bumb 2008; Dercon et al. 2008)”
Social capital, governance and performance of Ethiopian coffee cooperatives (2012, background): “Earlier studies on rural development options for less-developed areas also identify access to roads and infrastructure as a key factor for market-induced entrepreneurship (Dercon et al. 2008; Ruben and Pender 2004).”
The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal (2015, background): “…index (immaterial corrections) Davey et al. (2015) Miguel and Kremer (2004), Hicks et al. (2015) Subsets of data, redefine treatment Bowser (2015) Dercon et al. (2009, 2015) Data from new survey round Notes: Replication tests: √ = Little dispute that some substantial replication failure…”
Determinants of Household Food Security in Rural Ethiopia: An Empirical Analysis (2014, background): “The study communities were originally selected as a judgment sample intended to be approximately representative of the rural highlands, and comparisons with the census indicate that the communities are similar to the rural highlands as whole (Dercon et al. 2009).”
To Specialize or Diversify: Agricultural Diversity and Poverty Dynamics in Ethiopia (2017, unknown): “Additional details on the speciﬁcs of each consumption bundle and the various sources of price data can be found in Dercon and Krishnan (1996), Dercon and Krishnan (2003), and Dercon et al. (2009).”
Rural Roads and Local Economic Development (2018, background): “…related are papers that estimate the impact of rural road programs in Bangladesh (Khandker et al., 2009; Khandker and Koolwal, 2011; Ali, 2011), Ethiopia (Dercon et al., 2009), Indonesia (Gibson and Olivia, 2010), Papua New Guinea (Gibson and Rozelle, 2003) and Vietnam (Mu and van de Walle, 2011).”