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000171427 245__ $$aAgricultural Technology Adoption and Child Nutrition: Improved Maize Varieties in Rural Ethiopia
000171427 260__ $$c2014
000171427 269__ $$a2014
000171427 270__ $$mdi83@vt.edu$$pZeng,   Di
000171427 270__ $$malwangj@vt.edu$$pAlwang,   Jeffrey
000171427 270__ $$mgnorton@vt.edu$$pNorton,   George
000171427 270__ $$mb.shiferaw@pep-net.org$$pShiferaw,   Bekele
000171427 270__ $$mM.Jaleta@cgiar.org$$pJaleta,   Moti
000171427 270__ $$mctizale@yahoo.com$$pYirga,   Chilot
000171427 336__ $$aConference Paper/ Presentation
000171427 520__ $$aAdoption of agricultural technology can lead to multiple benefits to farm households, including increased productivity, incomes and food consumption. However, specific causal linkages between agricultural technology adoption and child nutrition outcomes are rarely explored in the literature. This paper helps bridge this gap through an impact assessment of the adoption of improved maize varieties on child nutrition outcomes using a recent household survey in rural Ethiopia. The conceptual linkage between adoption of improved maize varieties and child nutrition is first established using an agricultural household model. Instrumental variable (IV) estimation suggests the overall impacts of adoption on child height-for-age and weight-for-age z-scores to be positive and significant. Quantile IV regressions further reveal that such impacts are largest among children with poorest nutritional outcomes. By combining a decomposition procedure with system of equations estimation, it is found that the increase in own-produced maize consumption is the major channel through which adoption of improved maize varieties affects child nutrition.
000171427 546__ $$aEnglish
000171427 650__ $$aFood Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
000171427 650__ $$aFood Security and Poverty
000171427 650__ $$aHealth Economics and Policy
000171427 650__ $$aInternational Development
000171427 6531_ $$achild nutrition
000171427 6531_ $$aimpact
000171427 6531_ $$aimproved maize varieties
000171427 6531_ $$aEthiopia
000171427 700__ $$aZeng, Di
000171427 700__ $$aAlwang, Jeffrey Roger
000171427 700__ $$aNorton, George
000171427 700__ $$aShiferaw, Bekele
000171427 700__ $$aJaleta, Moti
000171427 700__ $$aYirga, Chilot
000171427 773__ $$d2014
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