Estimating the distributional impact of innovation platforms on income of smallholder maize farmers in Nigeria.

This research studies the distributional effects of IP adoption on the farm income of smallholder maize farmers in Nigeria in an effort to move beyond the standard mean impact assessment of agricultural interventions. In order to account for selection bias that may result from both observed and unobserved factors, the study used a conditional instrumental variable quantile treatment effects (IV-QTE) strategy. The use of IPs greatly affects the revenue distributions of maize producers, as empirical evidence from the outcomes shows.