| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP7121 |
| DP7121 Curbing Cream-Skimming: Evidence on Enrolment Incentives | |
| Pascal Courty; Gerald Marschke; Do Han Kim | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-01-23 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local or personal consumption despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted by DrumNet in Kenya that attempts to help farmers adopt and market export crops. DrumNet provides smallholder farmers with information about how to switch to export crops, makes in-kind loans for the purchase of the agricultural inputs, and provides marketing services by facilitating the transaction with exporters. The experimental evaluation design randomly assigns pre-existing farmer self-help groups to one of three groups: (1) a treatment group that receives all DrumNet services, (2) a treatment group that receives all DrumNet services except credit, or (3) a control group. After one year, DrumNet services led to an increase in production of export oriented crops and lower marketing costs; this translated into household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements. DrumNet collapsed in this region as farmers were forced to sell to middlemen and defaulted on their loans. The risk of such events may explain, at least partly, why many seemingly more profitable export crops are not adopted. |
| 主题 | Development Economics |
| 关键词 | Field experiment Food safety standards Export crop |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp7121 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/535958 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Pascal Courty,Gerald Marschke,Do Han Kim. DP7121 Curbing Cream-Skimming: Evidence on Enrolment Incentives. 2009. |
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