Download or read book The Link Between Household Health and Labor Productivity in Reducing Poverty in Ethiopia - Case of Woliso Woreda, Oromia written by Kitessa Terefe and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The agricultural efficiency index is estimated by stochastic frontier production function. The efficiency index is regressed on the probability of being sick to control for household characteristics and other exogenous variable. Estimation is performed using the treatment effect model where the probability of being sidelined by sickness is modeled as a probit. This framework allows policy simulations that underscore the impact of farmers' health status on both agricultural efficiency and poverty reduction. Overall, regression results confirm the negative impact of health impediment on farmers' agricultural efficiency. Simulation results show that improving farmers' agricultural efficiency by investing in farmers' health may not necessarily lead to poverty reduction. Additional policy instruments may be needed to achieve simultaneous increase in agricultural productivity and reduction in poverty rate.