@article{Josephson:212459,
      recid = {212459},
      author = {Josephson, Anna Leigh and Michler, Jeffrey D.},
      title = {To Specialize or Diversify: Agricultural Diversity and  Poverty Persistence in Ethiopia},
      address = {2015},
      number = {1008-2016-80173},
      pages = {30},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {This article answers the empirical question: what is the  relationship between the choice
to specialize or diversify  in crop production and household poverty status? We  use
household panel data from Ethiopia and a recently  developed parametric method for
estimating dynamic binary  response models with endogenous contemporaneous  regres-
sors. Our results provide evidence that households  which grow a diverse set of crops are
less likely to be  poor. Additionally, crop diversity reduces the probability  that a house-
hold will fall into poverty and reduces the  probability that a household will remain in
poverty. We  conclude that policies which encourage households to  specialize in cash
crops may be counter-productive while  policies which encourage crop diversification
may reduce  poverty.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/212459},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.212459},
}