Policy interventions aimed at increasing agricultural productivity have been central in the fight against global poverty. This column uses a new methodology combining experimental data with a quantitative model to shed light on the household-level and distributional effects of scaling up agricultural policies. The authors show how different forms of scaling up agricultural policies can have varying average welfare effects and distributional implications.
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Scaling up agricultural policy interventions: Evidence from Uganda
Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Benjamin Faber, Thibault Fally, Matthias Hoelzlein, Edward Miguel, Andres Rodríguez-Clare
Centre for Economic Policy Research