Sales location and supply response among semisubsistence farmers in Benin: A heteroskedastic double selection model
| dc.creator | Takeshima, Hiroyuki | |
| dc.creator | Winter-Nelson, Alex | |
| dc.date | 2010 | |
| dc.date | 2024-10-01T14:04:38Z | |
| dc.date | 2024-10-01T14:04:38Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-27T15:28:20Z | |
| dc.description | In much of rural Africa, high transaction costs limit farmers' market participation and thus their potential for income growth. Transaction costs can affect not only whether a farmer sells product but also whether sales occur at the farm gate on at a market. If production behavior is related to a chosen sales location, then analysis of interventions can be improved by explicit consideration of the decision of where to sell. This paper develops a double-selection model that explains consumption and production decisions by semi-subsistence farmers who first decide whether to be a seller and then whether to sell at the farm gate or at an off-farm location before deciding on production and consumption. The study tests the validity of this dual-criteria model against a single criterion model in which a grower first decides to be a seller and then decides production, consumption and sales location simultaneously. Dual-criteria and single-criterion models are compared while correcting inconsistency in estimations due to violation of homoskedasticity and normality assumptions in selection equations. The results suggest that the dual-criteria model provides more information than the single-criterion model using a sample of cassava producer in Benin. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154894 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/105408 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute | |
| dc.rights | Open Access | |
| dc.source | Takeshima, Hiroyuki; Winter-Nelson, Alex. 2010. Sales location and supply response among semisubsistence farmers in Benin: A heteroskedastic double selection model. IFPRI Discussion Paper 999. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154894 | |
| dc.subject | development policies | |
| dc.subject | transaction costs | |
| dc.subject | agricultural growth | |
| dc.title | Sales location and supply response among semisubsistence farmers in Benin: A heteroskedastic double selection model | |
| dc.type | Working Paper |