Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/269324 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
FERDI Working Paper No. P43
Publisher: 
Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI), Clermont-Ferrand
Abstract: 
This paper investigates whether the Pesticides Initiative Program has signicantly affected the export performance of Senegal's horticulture industry. We apply two main microeconometric techniques, difference-in-differences and matching difference-in-differences, to identify the effect of the Pesticides Initiative Program on exports of fresh fruits and vegetables. We use a unique firm-level dataset containing data on sales, employment, and exports by product and destination markets, as well as firm enrolment year, over 2000-2008. The results suggest that while the program had no signicant effect on exports pooled over all products and destinations, it had a positive effect when considering fresh fruits and vegetables exports to the European Union.
JEL: 
F13
L15
L25
O13
C23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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