Impact of Farmers’ Training Centres on Household Income: Evidence from Propensity Score Matching in Eastern Ethiopia

Muluken Gezahegn Wordofa and Maria Sassi
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Muluken Gezahegn Wordofa: Department of Rural Development and Agricultural Extension, Haramaya University, P.O. Box 138, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
Maria Sassi: Department of Economics and Management, University of Pavia, Corso Str. Nuova, 65, 27100 Pavia, Italy

Social Sciences, 2017, vol. 7, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: In developing countries, agricultural advisory services (AASs) are regarded as a key component of economic development strategies in terms of improving productivity and livelihoods. Nevertheless, there is a dearth of empirical evidence on the impact of AASs in general and the Farmers’ Training Centres (FTCs) in particular. In this article, we employ the propensity score matching procedure to estimate the impact of an FTC-based training on household farm income in eastern Ethiopia. The result indicates a significant average gain of annual farm income by participants of the training, ranging from Birr 9557 to Birr 10,388 per household.

Keywords: agricultural advisory services; impact evaluation; propensity score matching; farm income; farmers’ training centres; agricultural training (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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