Estimating the average treatment effect of adopting stress tolerant variety on rice yield in China

作     者：ZHOU Jie-hong TANG Li-qun Xiaohua Yu 

作者机构：Center for Agricultural and Rural Development Zhejiang University Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development University of Goettingen 

出 版 物：《Journal of Integrative Agriculture》 (农业科学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2018年第17卷第4期

页      面：940-948页

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学科分类：09[农学] 0901[农学-作物学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,71773109 and 71273234) the Key Project of the Ministry of Education of China(16JJD63007) 

主　　题：climate extremes rice stress tolerant variety yield ATE endogeneity 

摘      要：Climate extremes, characterized by droughts and floods, have become one of the major constraints to sustainable improvement of rice productivity. Variety choice, considered as one of the main adaptation measures, could help farmers reduce yield loss resulting from these extremes. Based on a three-year panel survey of 1 080 Chinese rice farms in major rice producing provinces, we assume Hicksian neutral technology and employ an IV regression to estimate the average treatment effect(ATE) on rice yield for adopting stress tolerant variety, and find that farmers who adopted the stress tolerant variety on average increased rice yield by 15.5% in comparison to the non-adopters.