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Impact of agricultural related technology adoption on poverty: a study of select households in rural India [1]

This paper applies a program evaluation technique to assess the causal effect of adoption of agricultural related technologies on consumption expenditure and poverty measured by different indices. The paper is based on a cross-sectional household level data collected during 2014 from a sample of 270 households in rural India. Sensitivity analysis is conducted to test the robustness of the propensity score based results using the “rbounds test” and the mean absolute standardized bias between adopters and non-adopters. The analysis reveals robust, positive and significant impacts of agricultural related technologies adoption on per capita consumption expenditure and on poverty reduction for the sample households in rural India.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2015
Santosh K. Sahu [2], Sukanya Das [3]
Madras School of Economics [4]
Tags:
Agriculture [5], Poverty [6], Orissa (Odisha) [7], India [8], Technology [9], Farmers [10], National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) [11], Land Ownership [12]
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