Abstract

This research demonstrates that soybean adoption has a positive effect on the crop production value of households. Employing a genetic matching ap- proach, the estimated impact amounts to 11,000 Mozambican Meticals (MT). On average, households embracing soybean adoption exhibit a roughly 60% higher crop production value compared to those that have not done so. These findings hold statistically significant at the 99% confidence level, confirmed through various robustness checks. Furthermore, regional analysis reveals that households in the northeast experience a 40% higher difference in crop produc- tion value compared to those in the northwest. The study also explores different scenarios related to estimating crop production value in married households, particularly when responses from spouses, despite farming together, vary. No- tably, considering only the wife’s response as indicative of true household pro- duction yields the smallest average treatment effect for the treated (ATT). Moreover, the study finds that the impact of soybean adoption on the crop production value of women is half that of men. Finally, the research includes a theoretical section justifying the preference for the genetic matching approach over common matching techniques such as propensity score matching, Maha- lanobis distance, and exact matching.