https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/633370
標題: | Group heterogeneity and the economic effect of farmer organisation participation: Empirical evidence from Taiwan | 作者: | Tsai, Min Han YIR-HUEIH LUH |
關鍵字: | average treatment effects; farm household economics; farmer organisations; organisation heterogeneity; social capital | 公開日期: | 1-六月-2023 | 卷: | 74 | 期: | 2 | 來源出版物: | Journal of Agricultural Economics | 摘要: | We explore the effects of different farmer organisations on smallholder farmers' economic performance. The average treatment effect of switching between different farmer organisations is examined. In addition, based on the premise that a higher level of social capital is accumulated through participation in multiple farmer organisations, we also investigate how the economic consequences of farmer organisation membership vary with the intensity of participation. Our conceptual model explicitly includes social capital to provide a micro-foundation and a theoretical justification for the linkage between farmer organisation participation and the economic outcome. This indicates that participating in different types of farmer organisations is beneficial for farm households only when the returns from social capital investment outweigh the time cost of participation. Our empirical results suggest that membership of farmer organisations that are more homogeneous in terms of member specialty and similarity in production and marketing activities results in a significant increase in farm sales revenue and net returns. This result supports the view that technological proximity accentuates knowledge spillovers within the farmer organisations, and thus leads to better economic outcomes. In line with the prediction of the theoretical model, the average treatment effect of participation is found to increase with the number of organisations that farmers belong to. Moreover, results from the quantile regression provide empirical evidence supporting increasing returns to social capital accumulated through participation in several farmer organisations. |
URI: | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85138880377&doi=10.1111%2f1477-9552.12515&partnerID=40&md5=52f38b05b5efc2f5ec3a23a85d4d421c https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/633370 |
ISSN: | 0021857X | DOI: | 10.1111/1477-9552.12515 |
顯示於: | 農業經濟學系 |
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