An Ordered Tobit Model of Market Participation: Evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia
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An Ordered Tobit Model of Market Participation: Evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia
Do rural households in developing countries make market participation and volume decisions simultaneously or sequentially? This article develops a two-stage econometric model that allows testing between these two competing hypotheses regarding household-level market behavior. The first stage models the household’s choice of whether to be a net buyer, autarkic, or a net seller in the market. The...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Agricultural Economics
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0002-9092,1467-8276
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8276.2006.00861.x