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Agricultural (Dis)Incentives and Food Security: Is There a Link?
Author(s) -
Magrini Emiliano,
Montalbano Pierluigi,
Nenci Silvia,
Salvatici Luca
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.1093/ajae/aaw103
Subject(s) - food security , incentive , agriculture , propensity score matching , matching (statistics) , selection (genetic algorithm) , sample (material) , business , selection bias , agricultural economics , public economics , natural resource economics , economics , microeconomics , computer science , geography , statistics , chromatography , chemistry , mathematics , archaeology , artificial intelligence
Using the World Bank database “Distortions to agricultural incentives,” this paper analyzes the impact that agricultural (dis)incentives have on food security for a wide sample of countries over the 1990–2010 period. We adopt a continuous treatment approach applying generalized propensity score matching to reduce potential biases stemming from differences in observed country characteristics. The results provide strong evidence of self‐selection and heterogeneous food security impacts at different levels of policy intensity. Estimates of the dose‐response functions show that both discrimination against agriculture and large support for it lead to poor performance in the availability, access, and utilization dimensions of food security.