@article{Rios:51031,
      recid = {51031},
      author = {Rios, Ana R. and Shively, Gerald E. and Masters, William  A.},
      title = {Farm Productivity and Household Market Participation:  Evidence from LSMS Data},
      address = {2009},
      number = {1005-2016-79000},
      series = {Contributed Paper},
      pages = {42},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {We analyze the correlation between farm productivity and  market participation using comparable household data from  Tanzania, Vietnam and Guatemala. Each farm’s input use and  output levels provide a within-sample measure of relative  productivity, which we relate to that household’s level of  participation in local markets using a wide range of  agricultural, demographic and infrastructural variables as  controls and as instruments in two-stage regressions.   Results indicate that, controlling for differences in  market access and the underlying determinants of market  participation, households with higher productivity have  greater participation in agricultural markets. In contrast,  households with greater rates of market participation do  not consistently demonstrate higher levels of relative  productivity.  This result holds only in Vietnam and  Guatemala, however. In the Tanzania sample we find no  significant correlation in either direction. Combining  household surveys in this way offers a promising approach  to testing the robustness of key hypotheses across  countries and over time.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/51031},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.51031},
}