Impact of metal silos on households’ maize storage, storage losses and food security: An application of a propensity score matching

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Farmer training in off-season vegetables: Effects on income and pesticide use in Bangladesh (2016, methodology): “Both methods have been widely used in the impact evaluation literature (e.g. Gitonga et al. 2013, Fischer and Qaim 2012, Abebaw et al. 2010, Becerril and Abdulai 2010).”
An Overview of the Post-Harvest Grain Storage Practices of Smallholder Farmers in Developing Countries (2018, methodology): “A propensity score has also been used to assess the impact of silo structure on maize storage duration, storage losses, and costs [49].”
Managing storage pests of maize: Farmers' knowledge, perceptions and practices in western Kenya (2016, background): “The younger farmers expressed tendencies to abandon the use of traditional granaries for lack of knowledge on how to construct them, and existence of better facilities such as metal silos (Gitonga et al., 2013), an observation supported by an earlier report by World Bank (2011) that use of these fac”