Estimating the intrahousehold costs and benefits of innovations to enhance smallholder farmers’ resilience
Berber Kramer,
Anne G. Timu,
Osman Damba
Abstract:This paper introduces a new framework to quantify costs and benefits for resilience-related outcomes of agricultural innovations targeting smallholder farmers. The framework employs a non-unitary household model with expected utility to quantify welfare benefits associated with non-monetary outcomes that are important from a development perspective, such as improved consumption smoothing, empowerment, and changes in time use. We demonstrate the application of the framework using a case study of climate informa… Show more
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