Climate change and agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial sample selection model

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 199-226

  Ward, Patrick S ^a   Florax, Raymond J G M ^b,c,d   Flores Lagunes, Alfonso ^e,f  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

agricultural productivity; climate change; generalised method of moments estimation; sample selection; spatial econometrics

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CEREAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; ECONOMETRICS; SELECTION; SIMULATION; YIELD RESPONSE;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 84896778736     PISSN: 01651587     EISSN: 14643618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbt025     Document Type: Article

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