Contract farming and rural transformation: Evidence from a field experiment in Benin
通过贝宁水稻生产的田间实验，发现合同农业能提升农户福利和生产率，且最简单的固定价格合同效果几乎与附加属性的合同相当。
Contract farming has emerged as a popular mechanism to encourage vertical coordination in developing country agriculture. Yet, there is a lack of consensus on its ability to spur structural transformation in rural economies. We present results from a field experiment on contract farming for rice production in Benin. While all contracts have positive effects on welfare and productivity measures, we find that the simplest contract has impacts nearly as large as contracts with additional attributes. This suggests that once price risk is resolved through the offer of a fixed-price contract, farmers are able to address other constraints on their own.