Impacts of cooperative membership on rice productivity: Evidence from China

• Published in: World development Vol. 150; p. 105669
• Main Authors: Lin, Bin, Wang, Xiaoxi, Jin, Songqing, Yang, Wanjiang, Li, Houjian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2022; Pergamon Press Inc
• Subjects: Agricultural cooperatives; Agricultural development; Agricultural mechanization; Automation; Change agents; Channels; Cooperation; Cooperatives; Cultivation; Endogenous; Endogenous switching regression; Farms; Food security; Mechanization; Membership; Paddy rice production; Productivity; Provinces; Regression models; Rice; Rice industry; Selection bias; Stochastic frontier analysis; Sustainable development; Total factor productivity; China; Q13; D24; Q16; Total factor productivity; Endogenous switching regression; Paddy rice production; Stochastic frontier analysis; Agricultural cooperatives

•This study combines SFA approach with an ESR model to assess the impact of cooperative membership on rice TFP.•Cooperative membership has positive impacts on rice TFP, TFP growth and its components.•The impacts are highly heterogeneous across regions, farm scales and mechanization levels.•The main...