Estimating the average treatment effect of adopting stress tolerant variety on rice yield in China |
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Authors: | Jie-hong ZHOU Li-qun TANG Xiaohua Yu |
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Affiliation: | 1. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P.R. China;2. Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Goettingen, Goettingen 37073, Germany |
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Abstract: | Climate extremes, characterized by droughts and floods, have become one of the major constraints to sustainable improvement of rice productivity. Variety choice, considered as one of the main adaptation measures, could help farmers reduce yield loss resulting from these extremes. Based on a three-year panel survey of 1 080 Chinese rice farms in major rice producing provinces, we assume Hicksian neutral technology and employ an IV regression to estimate the average treatment effect (ATE) on rice yield for adopting stress tolerant variety, and find that farmers who adopted the stress tolerant variety on average increased rice yield by 15.5% in comparison to the non-adopters. |
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Keywords: | climate extremes rice stress tolerant variety yield ATE endogeneity |
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