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标题：The Effect of Household Wealth on Input Market Participation in Southern Africa
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作者：Langyintuo, Augustine S. ; Mungoma, Catherine
期刊名称：Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics
印刷版ISSN：0004-9395
电子版ISSN：0817-8763
出版年度：2006
卷号：AUG
出版社：Australian Agricultural Economics Society
摘要：Input technological change, fundamental to rural transformation, sometimes bypasses some rural populations because farmers are often reluctant to use new inputs due to production and price risks that could render their use unprofitable. The level of wealth of the household significantly relates to the households ability to cope with such risks. Given the highly disproportionate distribution of wealth among rural households, this paper demonstrated that first stratifying households into meaningful wealth categories and estimating non-separable household improved variety adoption and seed demand models for each wealth category provides an opportunity to develop credible policy relevant recommendations on interventions that increase impact. This approach contributes significantly to the methodological challenges of assessing seed demand in developing agriculture.
关键词：Wealth index improved maize variety consumption characteristics production attributes derived input technological change censored regression Zambia