%0 Journal Article
%@ 01695150
%A Brorsen, B W
%A Adesina, A A
%D 1990
%F icrisat:9680
%I Elsevier B.V.
%J Agricultural Economics
%K Niger, Millet, Market prices
%N 3-4
%P 287-296
%T A test of whether millet acreage in Niger is determined by official or private market prices
%U http://oar.icrisat.org/9680/
%V 04
%X Niger has two separate marketing channels for grain: one is the official system operated by the government; the other is a parallel channel of private traders. Researchers or policy-makers wanting to study effects of price policies on producers are faced with two sets of prices. This paper seeks to answer the question, which prices matter? Non-nested hypothesis tests are conducted for millet-acreage response equations. The results show that prices from the larger private market are the prices that matter.
%Z The authors wish to than Patrick Jomini, B.I. Shapiro and W.H.M. Morris  for helpful comments and for help in collecting data.