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标题：Heterogeneous Effects of Agricultural Technical Assistance in Colombia
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作者：Nicolás Arturo Torres Franco ; Eleonora Dávalos ; Leonardo Fabio Morales 等
期刊名称：Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics
印刷版ISSN：0081-3052
出版年度：2021
卷号：53
期号：4
页码：459-481
DOI：10.1017/aae.2021.18
语种：English
出版社：Southern Agricultural Economics Association
摘要：Small family farms account for 72% of the farms in the world. Most of these farms, in developing countries, face labor productivity gaps. One of the strategies to increase agricultural productivity focuses on implementing technical assistance programs. Using agriculture microdata, we estimate the marginal treatment effect of receiving technical assistance services. We find that technical assistance generates heterogeneous effects. On average, agricultural units receiving technical assistance increased their agricultural production by 50.4%. However, there is important heterogeneity of technical assistance’s effects across the production units’ unobserved and observed characteristics.
关键词：family farms;heterogeneous effects;technical assistance