Nonfarm Employment and Poverty Reduction in Rural Ghana: A Propensity-Score Matching Analysis
| dc.creator | Owusu, Victor | |
| dc.creator | Abdulai, Awudu | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T17:43:07Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T04:49:16Z | |
| dc.description | This article investigates the impact of nonfarm employment on farm household income and way out of poverty, using farm household data from Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana. A propensity score matching model is used to evaluate the impact participating in both wage and self-employment. Separate estimates are also provided for males and females. The results from the study show that nonfarm employment has a positive and robust effect on farm household income and a negative and significant effect on the likelihood of being poor. Self-employment was found to have much higher impacts than wage employment, reflecting the fact that most employment opportunities in the rural areas are in the former sector. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.51363 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/51363/files/IAAE_paper_reference%20number%2074.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/51363 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/555315 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/51363 | |
| dc.title | Nonfarm Employment and Poverty Reduction in Rural Ghana: A Propensity-Score Matching Analysis | |
| dc.type | Text |