@article{Mason:233674,
      recid = {233674},
      author = {Mason, Nicole M. and Wineman, Ayala and Kirimi, Lilian and  Mather, David},
      title = {The Effects of Kenya’s ‘Smarter’ Input Subsidy Program on  Smallholder Behavior and Incomes: Do Different  Quasi-Experimental Approaches Lead to the Same  Conclusions?},
      address = {2016-02},
      number = {680-2016-46756},
      series = {Tegemeo Working Papers},
      pages = {45},
      year = {2016},
      abstract = {Kenya joined the ranks of sub-Saharan African (SSA)  countries implementing targeted input subsidy programs  (ISPs) for inorganic fertilizer and improved seed in 2007  with the establishment of the National Accelerated  Agricultural Inputs Access Program (NAAIAP). While several  features of NAAIAP were ‘smarter’ than other ISPs in the  region, some aspects were less ‘smart’. However, the  efficacy of this program, and the relationship between its  design and effectiveness, have been little studied. This  article uses nationwide survey data to estimate the effects  of NAAIAP participation on Kenyan smallholders’ cropping  patterns, incomes, and poverty status. Unlike most previous  studies of ISPs, a range of panel data- and propensity  score-based methods are used to estimate the effects of  NAAIAP. The article then compares these estimated effects  across estimators and to the effects of other ISPs in SSA,  and discusses the likely links between differences in  program designs and impacts. The results are robust to the  choice of estimator and suggest that, despite substantial  crowding out of commercial fertilizer demand, NAAIAP had  sizable impacts on maize production and poverty severity.  NAAIAP’s success in targeting resource-poor farmers and  implementation through vouchers redeemable at private  agro-dealer shops likely contributed to its more favorable  impacts than those of ISPs in Malawi and Zambia.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/233674},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.233674},
}