Zeng, Di; Alwang, Jeffrey; Norton, George; Shiferaw, Bekele - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
A procedure is developed to examine the ex-post impacts of improved maize varieties on poverty in rural Ethiopia. Yield … effects to identify the counterfactual income distribution without improved maize arieties. Poverty impacts are estimated as … the differences in poverty indices computed using observed and counterfactual income distributions. Improved maize …