Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare

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dc.creatorAssfaw Wossen, Tesfamicheal
dc.creatorAbdoulaye, Tahirou
dc.creatorAlene, A.
dc.creatorHaile, M.G.
dc.creatorFeleke, S.
dc.creatorOlanrewaju, A.S.
dc.creatorManyong, Victor M.
dc.date2017-08
dc.date2017-08-14T10:23:28Z
dc.date2017-08-14T10:23:28Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T16:02:44Z
dc.descriptionThis paper examines the impacts of access to extension services and cooperative membership on technology adoption, asset ownership and poverty using household-level data from rural Nigeria. Using different matching techniques and endogenous switching regression approach, we find that both extension access and cooperative membership have a positive and statistically significant effect on technology adoption and household welfare. Moreover, we find that both extension access and cooperative membership have heterogeneous impacts. In particular, we find evidence of a positive selection as the average treatment effects of extension access and cooperative membership are higher for farmers with the highest propensity to access extension and cooperative services. The impact of extension services on poverty reduction and of cooperatives on technology adoption is significantly stronger for smallholders with access to formal credit than for those without access. This implies that expanding rural financial markets can maximize the potential positive impacts of extension and cooperative services on farmers’ productivity and welfare.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/83082
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/120911
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceAssfaw Wossen, T., Abdoulaye, T., Alene, A., Haile, M.G., Feleke, S., Olanrewaju, A. & Manyong, V. (2017). Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare. Journal of Rural Studies, 54, 223-233.
dc.subjectcooperatives
dc.subjectadoption
dc.subjectwelfare
dc.subjectimpact evaluation
dc.subjectextension access
dc.subjecttechnology adoption
dc.subjectsmallholders
dc.titleImpacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare
dc.typeJournal Article

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