TY  - JA
AU  - Mason,N.M.
AU  - Ricker-Gilbert,J.
TI  - Disrupting demand for commercial seed: input subsidies in Malawi and Zambia
SN  - 0305-750X
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Oxford (United Kingdom)
PB  - Elsevier
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Subsidies
KW  - Crop improvement
KW  - Maize
KW  - Seed
KW  - Malawi
KW  - Zambia
N1  - Peer review
N2  - This study uses nationally representative household-level panel data from Malawi and Zambia to identify the determinants of subsidized maize seed and fertilizer receipt, and to estimate how input subsidies affect households’ commercial purchases of improved maize seed varieties. In both countries we find that households in areas where the ruling party won the last presidential election acquire significantly more subsidized inputs than other households. Results also indicate that each additional kilogram of subsidized maize seed acquired by a household reduces its commercial improved maize seed purchases by 0.58 kg in Malawi and by 0.49 kg in Zambia on average
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.11.006
T2  - World Development
ER  -