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Social impact evaluation analyzes how a public program affects people´s lives to produce changes; it is based on a design that measures relevant variables for two equivalent groups: one exposed to the public intervention and the other without exposure. The objective of the research was to evaluate the impact of the national rural extension policy on the income of small-scale farm growers in 2015. A database with 1 083 records was used, of these, 58.5% were benefi and the rest were non- beneficiaries. The results from a log-level econometric model reveals that the rural extension policy increases the income of its beneficiaries by 16.8%, compared to an equivalent population that did not participate in the program. Income increases 4.7% for each additional year of beneficiaries’ education. The farmland scale and level of assets have a positive effect on the increase in income. The article concludes with a systematic assessment of the results aimed at recommendations based on lessons learned from evaluation as public management routine.
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