Getting Prices Right: The Impact of the Market Information Service in Uganda

Jakob Svensson and David Yanagizawa-Drott

Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, vol. 7, issue 2-3, 435-445

Abstract: The Market Information Service project in Uganda collected data on prices for the main agricultural commodities in major market centers and disseminated the information through local FM radio stations in various districts. Exploiting the variation across space between households with and without access to a radio, we find evidence suggesting that better-informed farmers managed to bargain for higher farm-gate prices on their surplus production. (JEL: O12, D82, D83) (c) 2009 by the European Economic Association.

JEL-codes: D82 D83 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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