@article{Mason:212233,
      recid = {212233},
      author = {Mason, Nicole and Tembo, Solomon},
      title = {Do input Subsidies Reduce Poverty among Smallholder Farm  Households? Panel Survey Evidence from Zambia},
      address = {2015},
      number = {1008-2016-80136},
      pages = {35},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {Many of the ‘new’ agricultural input subsidy programs  (ISPs) in sub-Saharan Africa
include among their objectives  raising farm incomes and reducing rural poverty, but
there  is a dearth of empirical evidence on whether ISPs are  achieving these
objectives. Focusing on the case of Zambia,  where ISPs account for approximately
50% of all  agricultural sector poverty reduction program expenditures,  we use
nationally-representative panel survey data to  estimate the effects of ISP fertilizer on
smallholder farm  household incomes, poverty incidence, and poverty severity  based
on the US$2 and US$1.25/capita/day poverty lines.  Panel data (fixed effects and
correlated random effects)  and instrumental variables/control function methods  are
used to correct for the potential endogeneity of  subsidized fertilizer to household
incomes and poverty  status. Results suggest that although ISP fertilizer  raises
incomes, the increase is not large enough or widely  distributed enough to
substantively reduce poverty  incidence or severity among smallholder farm
households in  Zambia.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/212233},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.212233},
}