TY - JOUR
T1 - Community managed hydropower, spillover effect and agricultural productivity
T2 - The case of rural Nepal
AU - Koirala, Bishwa S.
AU - Bohara, Alok K.
AU - Devkota, Satis
AU - Upadhyaya, Kamal P.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/3
Y1 - 2019/3
N2 - This study investigates the spillover effect of community owned micro hydropower on agricultural production at the household level in rural Nepal using a stochastic production frontier estimation technique. Using field based data, we employ propensity score matching and covariate balancing techniques to avoid any selection bias. We find that community owned micro hydropower contributes to an increase in agricultural production by 36.5 percent, and helps households gain about 4.9 percent in production efficiency. However, these households produce only about 67.86 percent of potential output. While estimating the inefficiency parameters, our study suggests that the community organizations formed by micro hydropower beneficiary households contribute to reduce inefficiency in agricultural production.
AB - This study investigates the spillover effect of community owned micro hydropower on agricultural production at the household level in rural Nepal using a stochastic production frontier estimation technique. Using field based data, we employ propensity score matching and covariate balancing techniques to avoid any selection bias. We find that community owned micro hydropower contributes to an increase in agricultural production by 36.5 percent, and helps households gain about 4.9 percent in production efficiency. However, these households produce only about 67.86 percent of potential output. While estimating the inefficiency parameters, our study suggests that the community organizations formed by micro hydropower beneficiary households contribute to reduce inefficiency in agricultural production.
KW - Agriculture production
KW - Community owned micro hydropower
KW - Propensity score matching
KW - Stochastic production frontier
KW - Technical efficiency
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U2 - 10.1016/j.wdp.2019.02.003
DO - 10.1016/j.wdp.2019.02.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85061426364
SN - 2452-2929
VL - 13
SP - 67
EP - 74
JO - World Development Perspectives
JF - World Development Perspectives
ER -