Efeitos heterogêneos do programa agroamigo sobre os pequenos produtores rurais

Abstract

The objective of this article was the product of the Agroamigo Rural Microcredit Program in the production and productivity per worker of the beneficiary family farmers. Based on the information provided by the Ministry of Agrarian Development (MDA), a field research was carried out with small farmers, located in three municipalities that make up the Central Cariri in the State of Ceará. Seeking to capture the heterogeneity of the effect on the program on rural workers, it was applied. Method of heterogeneous treatment effects developed by Xie et al. (2012), which are estimated from a parametric and non-parametric model. The results obtained showed that the multilevel stratification method had a positive and significant effect, 51%, on the Gross Value of Production in the beneficiaries for workers with a lower probability of participation in the treatment, and for a productivity per worker there is only For Those who are most likely to benefit. In addition, as estimated by Smoothness Matching and Smoothing Differentiation, they show that there is heterogeneity in the treatment purposes, and the effect is decreasing for the Gross Value of Production in the promotion of treatment, and increasing on the Gross Value of Production per worker . Key words: Heterogeneous effects; Agroamigo; family farming.