@article{Arraiz:212622,
      recid = {212622},
      author = {Arraiz, Irani and Calero, Carla and Jon, Songqing and  Peralta, Alexandra},
      title = {Planting the seeds: The impact of training on mando  producers in Haiti},
      address = {2015},
      number = {1008-2016-80032},
      pages = {37},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {This paper evaluates the short-term impacts of a  development project that aims to
increase mango yields,  sales of mango products, and the income of small  mango
farmers in rural Haiti. Various matching methods, in  combination with difference-indifference
(DID), are used to  deal with the potential selection bias associated  with
nonrandom treatment assignment. Our results show that  in a 16-month period, the
project increased the number of  young mango trees planted and encouraged the
adoption of  best practices. But the project has not yet led to a  noticeable increase in
total sales. The adoption of  improved production practices is too recent to  translate
into significant changes in production and sales.  While the robustness check suggests
that the results are  not caused by the presence of other similar programs on the  same
sites, the Rosenbaum bounds sensitivity analysis  suggests that the matching results
are robust against  “hidden bias” arising from unobserved outcome variables in  some
but not all cases.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/212622},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.212622},
}