The impact of climate change on crop production in Ghana: A Structural Ricardian analysis

Prince Etwire (), David Fielding and Victoria Kahui ()
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Prince Etwire: Department of Economics, University of Otago, New Zealand
Victoria Kahui: Department of Economics, University of Otago, New Zealand

No 1706, Working Papers from University of Otago, Department of Economics

Abstract: We apply a Structural Ricardian Model (SRM) to farm-level data from Ghana in order to estimate the impact of climate change on crop production. The SRM explicitly incorporates changes in farmers’ crop selection in response to variation in climate, a feature lacking in many existing models of climate change response in Africa. Two other novel features of our model are an estimate of the response of agricultural profits to differences in land tenure, and a comprehensive investigation of the appropriate functional form with which to model farmers’ responses. This final feature turns out to be important, since estimates of the effect of climate change turn out to be sensitive to the choice of functional form.

Keywords: Structural Ricardian Model; climate change; Ghana (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 O55 Q12 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2017-04, Revised 2017-04
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