@article{Liu:275898,
      recid = {275898},
      author = {Liu, Y.},
      title = {Determinants and impacts of marketing channel choice among  cooperatives members: Evidence from agricultural  cooperative in China},
      address = {2018-07},
      number = {2058-2018-5227},
      pages = {37},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {This paper examines the impact of agricultural  cooperatives working as a marketing channel, and the  determinant of members’ decision to sell products through  agricultural based on household-level data of agricultural  cooperatives members from poor rural areas in Sichuan  province, in China. Employing different treatment effect  estimators, i.e. PSM and IPWRA, we find that selling  products through agricultural cooperatives has a positive  and statistically significant effect on both farmers’  annual total household income and farm income. It was also  found that the effect on farm income (around 180%) is  higher than annual total household income (around 20%).  Comparing the difference between ATTs and ATEs, we could  suggest that the efficiency of agricultural cooperatives  can be improved by encouraging non-sellers to sell products  through agricultural cooperatives, which is possible to do  according to the results of a probit model. Following  empirical results obtained using the probit model, we  conclude that farm size, farming machine, distance to  market, credit constraint, sale condition, motivation to  participate in agricultural cooperatives and the knowledge  of agricultural cooperatives positively and significant  influence the probability of a member selling products  through agricultural cooperatives, while the market  information ownership shows a negative significant effect  on the choice.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/275898},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.275898},
}