Estimating the average treatment effect of adopting stress tolerant variety on rice yield in China
Climate extremes, characterized by droughts and floods, have become one of the major constraints to sustainable improvement of rice productivity. Variety choice, considered as one of the main adaptation measures, could help farmers reduce yield loss resulting from these extremes. Based on a three-ye...
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| description | Climate extremes, characterized by droughts and floods, have become one of the major constraints to sustainable improvement of rice productivity. Variety choice, considered as one of the main adaptation measures, could help farmers reduce yield loss resulting from these extremes. Based on a three-year panel survey of 1 080 Chinese rice farms in major rice producing provinces, we assume Hicksian neutral technology and employ an IV regression to estimate the average treatment effect (ATE) on rice yield for adopting stress tolerant variety, and find that farmers who adopted the stress tolerant variety on average increased rice yield by 15.5% in comparison to the non-adopters. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e9f50134986943f3bc6f268221f3804f2025-08-20T03:57:52ZengKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Journal of Integrative Agriculture2095-31192018-04-0117494094810.1016/S2095-3119(17)61848-3Estimating the average treatment effect of adopting stress tolerant variety on rice yield in ChinaJie-hong ZHOU0Li-qun TANG1Xiaohua Yu2Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P.R. ChinaCenter for Agricultural and Rural Development, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P.R. ChinaCenter for Agricultural and Rural Development, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P.R. China; Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Goettingen, Goettingen 37073, Germany; Correspondence Xiaohua Yu, Tel: +49-551-3919574Climate extremes, characterized by droughts and floods, have become one of the major constraints to sustainable improvement of rice productivity. Variety choice, considered as one of the main adaptation measures, could help farmers reduce yield loss resulting from these extremes. Based on a three-year panel survey of 1 080 Chinese rice farms in major rice producing provinces, we assume Hicksian neutral technology and employ an IV regression to estimate the average treatment effect (ATE) on rice yield for adopting stress tolerant variety, and find that farmers who adopted the stress tolerant variety on average increased rice yield by 15.5% in comparison to the non-adopters.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095311917618483climate extremesricestress tolerant varietyyieldATEendogeneity |
| spellingShingle | Jie-hong ZHOU Li-qun TANG Xiaohua Yu Estimating the average treatment effect of adopting stress tolerant variety on rice yield in China Journal of Integrative Agriculture climate extremes rice stress tolerant variety yield ATE endogeneity |
| title | Estimating the average treatment effect of adopting stress tolerant variety on rice yield in China |
| title_full | Estimating the average treatment effect of adopting stress tolerant variety on rice yield in China |
| title_fullStr | Estimating the average treatment effect of adopting stress tolerant variety on rice yield in China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Estimating the average treatment effect of adopting stress tolerant variety on rice yield in China |
| title_short | Estimating the average treatment effect of adopting stress tolerant variety on rice yield in China |
| title_sort | estimating the average treatment effect of adopting stress tolerant variety on rice yield in china |
| topic | climate extremes rice stress tolerant variety yield ATE endogeneity |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095311917618483 |
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